Simushir is part of the Kuril Islands, comprising 50 volcanic islands in the North Pacific Ocean. It stretches for eight ...

The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens — which began with a series ... and steam exploded upward and outward to the north. The outward blast spread volcanic debris (gray in the images) over 230 square ...

Abandoned Soviet Island Contained Quadruple Volcanoes That Caused a Violent Eruption in 1831 For almost two decades, experts ...

If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this summit photograph. Over the past 12 months, an Alaskan volcano named Mount Spurr has become noticeably ...

In the summer of 1831, strange things began to happen in the skies over Europe and North America. The sun shimmered blue and ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii ...

And while the advisory assured that the “likelihood of an eruption continues to gradually decline,” the 11,000-foot-tall volcano remains at an “elevated state of unrest,” meaning that an ...

A forgotten 1831 volcanic blast on Soviet Simushir Island may explain a century-old climate mystery—unseen, unrecorded, and ...

Scientists have found a way to monitor volcanic carbon dioxide levels — one of the first signs a volcano might be about to blow — that doesn't involve trekking up a mountain.

Anewly published study links a massive eruption on one of four aligned volcanoes on Simushir Island, a remote former Soviet military outpost, to a mysterious global climate cooling event that occurred ...

Visitors to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park have been welcomed back to an observation deck that provides panoramic views of the caldera at Kīlauea volcano’s summit. The Uēkahuna observation deck was ...

On February 27, 2007, the Stromboli volcano, which has usually been characterized by moderate explosive activity, started an effusive eruption with a small lava flow clown the NW flank. The permanent ...