New research from the University of St Andrews has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ash spread more than 5,000 km across the globe, far further than previously ...

A Cambridge University study has warned the world is "completely underestimating" the supervolcano eruption risk, which could ...

A volcanic eruption does not always involve molten rock bursting from a familiar cone.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected animal populations. A new study of a catastrophic volcanic eruption during ...

Not all volcanoes erupt with lava — on a Lake Michigan Beach in Saugatuck, Michigan, some amazing “ice volcanoes” erupted on Feb. 16. This amazing phenomenon happens when building waves of water are ...

Europe was plunged into darkness and suffered from intense crop failures and famines in the years A.D. 536 and A.D. 1258, after massive volcanic eruptions.

SAUGATUCK, Mich. — "Ice volcanoes" sound like something you'd see in a movie, but they've popped up amid the frigid temperatures in Michigan. The "volcanoes" look to be erupting on a beach in ...

Glaciovolcanism encompasses the spectrum of volcanic activity that takes place in the presence of ice, from subglacial eruptions confined beneath glaciers to interactions with meltwater at volcano ...