Discover why volcanoes erupt, how magma and gases cause eruptions and why volcanoes are essential for life on Earth.

Kilauea in Hawai’i has been in a state of near-constant eruption for decades, providing researchers with a uniquely reliable setting to study one of our planet’s most unpredictable and destructive ...

Volcanic eruptions are perhaps nature's most terrifying display of power. Catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens have gone down as some of the most ...

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...