A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

Volcanoes that dominate postcards and disaster movies are often the ones we can see, their peaks etched against the sky. Yet ...

The volcanic eruption that discharged near Tonga in January – which caused destruction to the nation and was felt by other countries along the Pacific Ocean – was one of the most powerful eruptions in ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health urges residents and visitors to take precautions as elevated volcanic gas emissions from the ...

The Hidden Climate Power of Sulfur Dioxide When massive volcanic eruptions occur, they inject millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it forms sulfate aerosols that scatter ...

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo volcano in June 1991 is the second largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century. Understanding how volcano activity may change over time is particularly important ...

Sessions are scheduled for Jan. 14 and 21 at Pāhala and Nāʻālehu public libraries, respectively. Come to the Kahuku Unit of ...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted on January 15, leaving the island coated in ash and causing a tsunami that caused even further damage to the Pacific island nation. There were ...

An international assessment report has been released to provide definitive statements on the atmospheric impacts from a huge ...

While residents of Tonga struggle to recover from a devastating volcanic explosion that smothered the Pacific island nation with ash and swamped it with water, scientists are trying to better ...

It sounds like the plot of a classic Hollywood disaster movie: a quiet fishing town on the coast of Iceland is threatened when a long-dormant volcano suddenly awakens, causing thousands of earth ...