The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory keeps its eyes on active volcanoes in many ways. While old fashioned eyes and a notebook are used when field teams are near a volcano, modern volcano ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

One of the U.S. Air Force’s oddest missions was against perhaps its most formidable adversary ever: Mother Nature. In 1935, lava from the Mauna Loa volcano threatened the nearby seaside town of Hilo, ...