In the days since scientists warned that Mount Spurr, Anchorage’s closest volcano, is likely to erupt within “the next few weeks to months,” Southcentral Alaska residents have snapped into preparation ...

Located in the United States, one of the world's largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It's known as the Yellowstone ...

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Far off the Oregon Coast, a restless underwater volcano has been rattling the seafloor with swarms of tiny earthquakes, including a burst that reached roughly 10,000 quakes in a single day. That ...

Scientists have mapped what are essentially the bones, blood vessels and nervous system of a "zombie volcano" to develop a comprehensive look inside. The Bolivian volcano Uturuncu hasn't erupted for ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

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If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

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