Those scientists saved countless lives, but their forecast was more of an educated guess than it might have appeared. It was nothing like a weather forecast; they couldn’t say that on June 12, an explosive eruption was going to occur with anything resembling certainty,

Scientists say the 19-mile-wide bulge in the northern rim of a volcano's caldera in Yellowstone has stopped growing. The head of the Yellowstone

The team behind "Jerk," a novel tool that predicted eruptions with 92% accuracy for a French volcano, discusses its work and implications.

Two-dimensional maps of clinopyroxene crystals that passed through a volcano’s magma chamber display a sharp increase in chromium concentration in their outermost rims. This increase indicates the arrival of primitive magma directly from the mantle, which can “tip” a volcanic system to erupt.

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 that are erupting as you read this sentence? We know ...

AS the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-Phivolcs) assesses a possible extension of the permanent danger zone around Mayon Volcano, where recent pyroclastic density currents have been concentrated,

Four decades on, the gap between well-monitored volcanoes and unmonitored ones still shapes who lives and dies. The new method developed at Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion Island offers a different model.

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse is just as devastating as an explosive eruption ...