Predicting a volcanic eruption in time to warn authorities and populations remains a major challenge on a global scale. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers and ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Forecasting Eruptions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

When massive volcanic eruptions occur, they inject millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it forms sulfate aerosols that scatter incoming solar radiation and result in global ...

Scientists, who started research in the US, made breakthrough after returning to China and gaining access to domestic ...

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 ...

This situation is heating up. One of the world’s most volatile volcanoes is silently refilling with molten rock, sparking fears that this caldera could be getting ready to unleash a torrent of lava, ...