A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano erupted in Ethiopia after nearly 12,000 years, and ash clouds have been drifting over the Middle East ...

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the big-name volcanoes like Yellowstone and Mount Etna in Sicily that pose the greatest ...

Ash from Ethiopias Hayli Gubbi volcano has drifted into Delhis skies amid already severe pollution. Fine ash and sulphur ...

A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted for the first time in almost 10,000 years, with high columns of ashes being sent into ...

Photo of volcano eruption at Mount Redoubt in Alaska in 2009 Credits: Game McGimsey, USGS Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth’s surface temperature is ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sent lava soaring 400 feet into the air last week, resuming an intermittent eruption that has been ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

The 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption may have contributed to this year's heat, but it's not causing climate change. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the UK ...

Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth's surface temperature is likely underestimated by a factor of two, and potentially as much as a factor of four, in ...