On March 3, 2015, Chile’s Villarrica volcano launched a mile-high fountain of lava into the inky night sky. In the days leading up to the explosion, the lava lake rose and roiled within the volcano’s ...

A long-dormant "supervolcano" in southern Italy is inching closer to a possible eruption — nearly six centuries after it last erupted, according to European researchers. The Campi Flegrei volcano, ...

There are many different kinds of volcanoes, ranging from the Hawaiian type, which produces gentle, effusive eruptions that tourists can observe from mere steps away, to the andesitic variety, which ...

Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a new study published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters suggests.

Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news stories. But despite the jolts and temblors, geologists say there's ...

Heather Handley is an associate professor of volcanic hazards and geoscience communication in the Department of Applied Earth Sciences at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands. Unlike ...

The PBS series begins its new season with an episode titled “Deadliest Volcanoes” that looks at Japan’s Mount Fuji; the “sleeping giant” submerged beneath Naples, Italy; and Yellowstone’s ...