Footage captured a July 30 phreatomagmatic eruption at the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, launching ash 1,476 feet into the ...

Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.

Great Sitkin volcano, sitting in Alaska’s central Aleutian Islands, has been slowly pushing lava out of its summit crater since July 2021. Five years into this eruption, the volcano shows no signs of ...

Stunning new footage shows a bright-green "fireball" meteor exploding in the skies over an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock may have struck ...

Not all volcanoes erupt with lava — on a Lake Michigan Beach in Saugatuck, Michigan, some amazing “ice volcanoes” erupted on Feb. 16. This amazing phenomenon happens when building waves of water are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

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