To better assess the danger posed by volcanoes, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a new ...

A new autonomous measurement system has been designed to map volcanic gas concentrations with ...

Explore California’s most underrated national park, where steaming fumaroles, bubbling mud pots, lava fields, and an active ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows.

Moderate volcanic eruptions and extreme wildfires since 2005 have led to an increase in the amount of water vapor in the ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...

People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an unusual problem. Floating volcanic rock is making boat travel difficult, blocking access to fishing grounds and disrupting daily life in coastal ...

Volcanoes inspire awe with spectacular eruptions and incandescent rivers of lava, but often their deadliest hazard is what quietly falls from the sky. When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr ...

Scientists are now looking to develop gas measurement tools that are increasingly accurate and risk-free. Read more at ...

A geothermal energy demo device built by Seattle startup Endurance being tested in the Mariana Islands. (Endurance photo via ...