An underwater volcano in the Pacific, Axial Seamount, reveals a process that could challenge current theories about the Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon. Obviously, visible lava spewing from a volcano’s caldera, like Hawai’i’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

For more than 100,000 years, the Methana volcano in Greece appeared quiet and lifeless. No lava spilled down its slopes. No ash clouds darkened the sky. To anyone watching from the surface, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Morning Glory pool in Yellowstone national park. Yellowstone is underlain by two magma bodies. Michael Juhran/dpa Unlike old ...

UPDATE: The volcano in Iceland erupted for the third time at around 6:00 a.m. local time on Thursday (Feb. 8). The risk of a volcanic eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is once again growing as ...

This Volcano Watch was written by research geophysicist Ingrid Johanson with Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Over the past ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

At any given time, 20 to 50 of these active volcanoes are erupting. The proximity of people and buildings makes it important ...

Over the past month, the frequency of fountaining events at the summit of Kilauea has increased to nearly one per week. This is reminiscent of the early days of the current episodic eruption that ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ...