Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...

Volcanologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory have been monitoring volcanic unrest since April of last year.

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

During this study, scientists were looking into what kind of events happened on Earth in order to allow oxygenation to occur 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings suggest that volcanic activity helped ...

“The increase in gas emissions confirms that new magma has intruded into the Earth’s crust beneath the volcano and indicates that an eruption is likely, but not certain, to occur within the ne ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, scientists mentioned early microorganisms were supported by nutrient recycling caused by volcanic activity. Massive volumes of carbon ...