But some refused to evacuate during the hazardous lava fountaining episode.
Scientists in Mexico documented a number of changes inside El Chichón during monitoring between June and December 2025.
On this episode of Science Dispatch, we dive into the latest Kīlauea eruption and the alarming chemistry behind the air ...
Volcanoes don’t always show their activity through huge explosions or lava rivers. In many cases, the changes are quiet and ...
In volcanoes, fluid inclusions are dominantly composed of CO 2. At magmatic temperatures (1200˚ C or 2192˚ F), the density of the CO 2 strongly depends on pressure, which is influenced by the depth of ...
The eruption pattern is getting more predictable, but other aspects like ashfall, are not.
A vast eruption beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean has been confirmed as the largest volcanic event ever recorded on the ...
Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense advises Big Island residents and visitors to take precautions in areas impacted by falling ash and tephra from Kīlauea volcano.
NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...
"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." ...
What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...