Yesterday, the Rincón de la Vieja volcano in northwestern Costa Rica erupted, sending a column of ash 2,000 meters above its crater. The eruption, reported by the Observatorio Vulcanológico y ...

Volcanoes often give little warning before they erupt, but now scientists have discovered an unexpected early warning ...

Magma stirs deep below the surface of the Earth, building pressure until at last it erupts with terrible power. But suppose ...

The science of predicting volcanic eruptions can genuinely save lives – potentially, a lot of lives – and researchers have ...

A new study claims that trees and the way their leaves change colors could act as natural volcano warnings as underground ...

A NASA-Smithsonian collaboration has revealed that carbon dioxide released from rising magma makes surrounding vegetation ...