AtIndonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano, a breathtaking blue glow emerges at night, setting it apart from most volcanoes where lava ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

NEW ORLEANS — One year ago, scientists made a surprisingly concrete prediction: Before 2025 was out, they said, Axial volcano — a submerged seamount near Oregon in the Northern Pacific Ocean — would ...

It’s winter, and the SciFri team is already dreaming of warmer weather. How about a mind vacation to one of the hottest places on earth, an erupting volcano? Tamsin Mather has trekked to volcanoes in ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so quickly. The plague known as the Black Death arrived in southern Europe in ...

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No deaths were reported from the eruption of Hayli Gubbi in Northern Ethiopia. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hayli Gubbi ...

University of Birmingham volcanologist Mike Cassidy argued that the biggest danger could come, not from Yellowstone and Mount Etna, but from hidden volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

Geothermal energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of the U.S.’s energy output, but by using a technique known as “superhot rocks,” that number could skyrocket. This process uses fracking technology to ...