Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of dormancy.

Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...

Tūtū Pele couldn't let the incoming Kona storm system have all the fun, as Kīlauea began lava fountaining at approximately 9:17 a.m. on March 10.

With the recent eruption of New Zealand’s White Island volcano, many questions have come up as to why it wasn’t flagged for possible eruption? White Island was in fact termed an ‘Alert Level 2’ ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, will join emergency management and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) officials Thursday to announce a new system of volcano monitoring in the ...

HONOLULU — The U.S. Senate has passed legislation aimed at improving the country’s volcano monitoring and early warning capabilities. The measure would strengthen existing volcano monitoring systems ...

Scientists have revealed the huge underground plumbing system of Yellowstone volcano in unprecedented detail. The findings, which are the result of a mammoth subsurface mapping task, could help answer ...