Kīlauea’s 2026 eruption shows increased lava fountains and ash spread, with volcanic plumes affecting communities up to 50 miles away. Learn how episodes drive the activity.

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Volcanic eruptions often appear sudden to nearby communities, even though the physical processes that drive them unfold over weeks, months, or years beneath the surface. Some volcanoes display clear ...

Effusive eruption at Mayon Volcano continues for the 63rd consecutive day on Monday (March 9, 2026) but there is nothing ...

A new detection method called “Jerk” could dramatically improve how scientists forecast volcanic eruptions. By using a single broadband seismometer, the system can detect extremely subtle ground ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lava flows from a fissure in the aftermath of eruptions from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, May 22, 2018. Andrew ...

Think about a mountain that keeps getting taller but never explodes. This might sound impossible, yet it happens more often than most people realize. Volcanoes don't always follow the same playbook of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pacific Northwest has always carried an air of quiet menace — a region where breathtaking beauty overlaps with a geological ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

New research offers clues as to why Mount St. Helens is one of the most explosive volcanoes in the Cascade range and why it stands apart from the chain of other Cascade volcanoes. Scientists from the ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take millions of years to form, but that is giving scientists ample time to glean ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano ...