Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...

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 United States leads the globe with 165 Holocene volcanoes, followed by Japan and Russia. These nations, situated along tectonic plate boundaries, host numerous active volcanic sites. Ongoing ...

Can using explosives to divert volcanic destruction actually work? The first try in Hawaii set the stage for more attempts, but conditions for success are extremely rare. An aerial view shows a bomb ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Weld County Coroner’s Office has identified the man shot and killed Wednesday afternoon by Greeley police near North Colorado Medical Center as ...

For centuries, the country’s western volcanic peninsula has been dormant, but a new era of volcanic activity could be on the horizon. The Fagradalsfjall Volcano, a raised crater of bubbling ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be covered in erupting "ice volcanoes," new observations suggest. Researchers found evidence that as the comet approached the sun, a series of cryovolcanoes ...

Similarly, some of the world’s most widely studied sleeping giants include Mount Fuji, Mount Rainier, and The Three Sisters in the United States. Although these volcanoes have been quiet for hundreds ...