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

Mud volcanoes are often pictured as dramatic geological phenomena featuring the sudden eruption of large volumes of fiery mud ...

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano sitting roughly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, is inflating toward the same ...

Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

Erupting volcanoes spew molten lava, gas and rocks up into the air. But just how high can the lava go and how do eruptions work? That’s what eight-year-old Thomas from Leeds in the UK wanted to know.

Terrified tourists were seen scrambling for cover as they were pelted with lava from an exploding volcano in Guatemala. Hikers tried to avoid being struck by chunks of burning rocks after Volcán de ...

Kilauea’s eruption led to a rare event, creating a vortex that sent rocks, dust, and ash flying. The volcano remains one of the world's most active. Coffee linked to significant new side effect, says ...

Footage released from United States Geological Survey captured a whirlwind, known in Hawaiian as a puahiohio, forming over Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on June 1. Scientists said heat rising from recent ...

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SNOQUALMIE — When residents discovered plans for a 45-acre battery facility near their homes, hundreds marched in protest through the usually sleepy downtown. County officials said they received death ...