Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Scientists have warned that an entire continent could tear itself apart, literally. A massive crack is emerging in the ...

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

Satisfying melt or rainbow eruption? 🍫 🌈 Watch as creamy vanilla lava flows out of a chocolate bundt cake, and rainbow blocks stack up into a colorful volcano with chocolate lava at the top ...

There was once a two-mile-tall volcano on Mount Desert Island, according to the National Parks Service. 450 million years ago, Mount Desert Island in Maine began as a piece of land that was struck ...

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range.

Why do researchers believe an underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast will erupt in 2025? Researchers at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center are monitoring the Axial Seamount ...

Underwater volcano poses no threat to people Since this volcano is well off the coast and deep underwater, it won’t pose any threats to humans. It is about one mile underwater.

Although the dormant Uturuncu hasn’t erupted in 250,000 years, the volcano continually burps up gasses and regularly rumbles with earthquakes—now scientists know why.

SEATTLE — The Pacific Northwest's most active underwater volcano is showing signs of an impending eruption, potentially occurring before the end of 2025, according to researchers at the ...