Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

A camera captured a brief phreatomagmatic eruption that occurred in the Taal Volcano's main crater in Batangas, Philippines ...

A rare submarine volcanic eruption in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea, has scientists buzzing with the ...

Footage captured a July 30 phreatomagmatic eruption at the Taal Volcano in the Philippines, launching ash 1,476 feet into the ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. A study to be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Melting glaciers may be setting the stage for more frequent and ...

Recent research has unveiled that giant ocean whirlpools, also termed mesoscale eddies, play a crucial role in transporting ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...