Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic ...

Volcanoes are Earth’s special effects department, constantly proving that reality can be more dramatic than Hollywood. Lava flows like glowing rivers, ash clouds turn skies into apocalyptic paintings, ...

Researchers at Mainz University identified volcanic tremors caused by the movement of magma. What really happens inside a ...

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations—known as tremor—that occur when magma or gases move upward through a volcano's conduits? Professor Dr. Miriam ...

Explosive eruptions and noxious gas emissions at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii this week have prompted scientists to work around the clock to understand what will happen next and how to keep the public ...

They’re born. They live once, erupting for a period that might last for days, years or decades. Then, they go dark and die. This narrative describes the life of a monogenetic volcano, a type of ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Teresa Ubide receives funding from The University of Queensland, the Queensland Government and the Australian Research Council. The volcanoes we see on Earth’s surface are just the tip of the iceberg.

When you picture a volcano, what do you see? I personally imagine a mountain sticking up into the sky. At the top of that mountain, I see a crater with a fiery hot lake boiling and roiling in it, or ...

Geologists set the record straight on a hoax over the Christmas holiday when someone who claimed to be from Wyoming shared a series of social media posts that claimed the area was being evacuated ...

Perched on top of Santorini's sheer cliffs is a world-famous tourist industry worth millions. Underneath is the fizzing risk of an almighty explosion. A huge ancient eruption created the dreamy Greek ...