Following Mount Etna's recent eruption in Sicily, we asked experts for their top volcano safety tips for travelers.

Some volcanoes erupt with little to no warning, posing serious risks to nearby communities and air traffic. A study of Alaska ...

Residents of Southcentral Alaska have been preparing for the possible eruption of Mt. Spurr over the last few months, with ...

A new study explains why some volcanoes erupt “stealthily” and offers a roadmap to improve eruption forecasting.

Volcanoes usually signal an upcoming eruption through ground deformation and earthquakes, giving people nearby ...

When volcanoes are preparing to erupt, scientists rely on typical signs to warn people living nearby: deformation of the ...

Now scientists have developed a way of modelling the volcano's behavior which could more effectively monitor potential ...

For the last year ... If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this summit photograph. Over the past 12 months, an Alaskan volcano named Mount ...

The Pinatubo volcano has erupted explosively, sending a towering ash plume high into the atmosphere, capturing the attention ...

Scientists say it’s important to research geoengineering – large-scale attempts to cool the planet to fight climate change – ...

An aerial view shows a bomb detonating on Mauna Loa during a 1935 eruption. The U.S. Army dropped ... a geophysicist at the USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory. As powerful as those explosives were ...

The USGS has announced that Kilauea volcano is ejecting fountains of lava in a manner not seen since the Pu'u'ō'ō eruption in ...