(NewsNation) — A recent study says trees may now be able to help detect when a volcano is about to erupt. The study by NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, looking at carbon dioxide levels around ...

(NewsNation) — Did a tropical volcanic eruption in 1345 trigger the Black Death pandemic that ended up decimating up to half of Europe’s population? That’s what researchers suggest in a new scientific ...

A typically quiet volcano in southeastern Iran has risen by about 3.5 inches, and it has not settled back down. This sudden change occurred between July 2023 and May 2024 at the Taftan volcano, a ...

The 2021 "Fagradalsfjall Fires" eruptions may have been triggered by magma pooling just underneath the ground, contrary to what scientists initially thought. An eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano ...

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly five miles high. A new study by an international team of researchers revealed ...

An exceptional discovery in northern China has revealed a 300-million-year-old tropical forest preserved under volcanic ash.

Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet. Scientists from Italy's International Research School of Planetary Sciences wrote in an ...

Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, creating a slow but dangerous feedback loop, scientists warn. A new study suggests the melting of ...

Ash erupted high into the atmosphere from Kīlauea in 2018. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a ...