Scientists’ experiment on Mount St. Helens suggests rodents can deliver fungi that plants need, but the repair crew has an appetite.

Volcanoes are among the most powerful forces on Earth, capable of reshaping landscapes and creating some of nature’s most dramatic events. Studying these eruptions is challenging because scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 79 CE Vesuvius eruption helped scientists reduce argon-argon dating uncertainty to just 13 years for a 2,000-year-old event.

Satellite imagery reveals a dramatic shift on Sertung Island following Anak Krakatau’s eruption. As lush greenery turns to ash, a new natural laboratory emerges for studying the birth of soil.

Volcanic eruptions are known for their spectacular visual displays of vivid lava, as well as the devastating impacts they can ...

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The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

Europe’s most active volcano has been putting on a fiery show, and experts predict that this is just the beginning. Tourists have flocked en masse to see molten lava spewing out of Mount Etna, a ...

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Get ready for some spooky science as we team up with the Springfield Museums to turn an ordinary pumpkin into an erupting, bubbling volcano!Joining us now is Dr.T and Mrs.C.

A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, ...

Around 631,000 years ago—a geological blink of an eye—catastrophe unfolded in what is now northwestern Wyoming, U.S. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life ...