Volcanoes often look deceptively quiet until the moment they unleash towering plumes of ash and gas, yet the precise switch that turns a gentle rumble into a devastating blast has remained stubbornly elusive. New research is now pointing to a subtle but ...

MANILA, Philippines – The alert status of Kanlaon Volcano in Negros Island Region could be raised to Alert Level 3 if explosive eruptions become more frequent in the next few days, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Friday.

Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island erupted twice on Thursday, producing moderately explosive events that sent ash plumes up to 3 kilometers into the sky and

Great Sitkin Volcano is still extruding lava in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, extending an eruption that began in 2021. The lava has filled most of the summit crater and moved into valleys below its rim,

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be presented on Tuesday, 8 July at the Goldschmidt Conference in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken from video provided by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, an explosive eruption occurs at the summit vent of Mount Kanlaon on Negros island in ...

Masaya Volcano. (Leon Petrosyan/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) A major volcano in Nicaragua has not one but two active magma chambers, scientists reveal in a new study, shedding important light on the inner workings of a highly active volcano located near a large human population.

For around 12,000 years, the Earth has been in the Holocene epoch, a warmer period following a glacial period. During this epoch, however, there have been around 22 abrupt cold phases, each lasting up to several centuries and leading to the expansion of glaciers.