Campi Flegrei is speeding toward a transition, which will either cause an eruption or a change to its underground magma ...

Ancient volcanoes in the Arctic may have trapped Earth in repeated "Snowball Earth" freezes for 56 million years.

Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of ...

Did you know there are at least 1,350 active volcanoes around the world, and roughly 20 active volcanic eruptions on any given day? While many of them occur deep under the ocean – most volcanoes are ...

A once-in-12,000-years volcanic eruption in Ethiopia sent ash plumes drifting as far as India and China. Intense monsoon rains triggered severe flooding across parts of India and Pakistan. Indonesia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A submersible, which travels to the seafloor to collect rock and microbe samples, is lifted by the arm of a research vessel. James ...

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400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath China Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe evidence that traces of precious metals from Earth’s metallic core, ...

An eruption at Mount Etna in July 2021. (Salvatore Allegra Photography/Moment/Getty Images) Mount Etna is more than half a million years old, but this massive stratovolcano in Sicily still has plenty ...