Volcanic ash, often seen as a dangerous waste after eruptions, may have a surprising new purpose—shielding people from ...

U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

Researchers have created geopolymer mortar blocks from Taal volcanic ash, potentially suitable for constructing ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano in Batangas had a phreatic eruption Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported. In its latest update ...

Around 201 million years ago, incredible volcanic outpourings in the supercontinent Pangaea shook up life on Earth and gave early dinosaurs a chance to thrive. Paleontologists have known something ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient ...

one of the two largest in the Cascades Volcanic Arc, has erupted nine times in the past 5,000 years. Some eruptions began explosively, spewing ash across vast distances before transitioning to ...

Such an eruption, with certain prevailing winds, may be able to bring volcanic ash to Seattle. However, lava flow or mudflow impacting the Seattle area would be very unlikely. But in cities closer ...

What the researchers found was that the chemical composition of the ice core ash matched nicely with the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir, which is part of the ...

Almost all the places that come to mind when thinking of volcanoes are on the list — Iceland, Hawaii, Japan, Central America, Papua New Guinea ... No new lava flows or ash so far, but a ...

You can get in touch with Tom by emailing t.howarth@newsweek.com. Languages: English. The Kilauea volcano began erupting on December 23, but so far eruptions have remained confined to the Hawaii ...