The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

Watch live as the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii, erupts for the first time in almost 40 years ...

A supervolcano that once shook the Earth is quietly recharging—and scientists are finally seeing how it happens. Scientists ...

Extreme drought, rather than a planetary winter, might be humanity’s biggest challenge in the years after a huge volcanic eruption 1. Global temperatures can plummet after a large eruption, if the ...

Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

Around 74,000 years ago, a volcano called Toba in Sumatra exploded, and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the ...

“It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,” said one marine geologist. A New Zealand-led team of marine geologists investigating an underwater volcano that erupted on Jan. 15 in the Tongan ...

A vast eruption beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean has been confirmed as the largest volcanic event ever recorded on the ocean floor. The 2012 explosion at the Havre volcano, near New Zealand, ...

Massive volcano in Japan refilling 7,300 years after eruption, offering new insight into supervolcano behavior and future risks ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcano eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

On June 15, 1991, the island of Luzon in the Philippines was ground zero for the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 1900s when Mount Pinatubo blew its top. This historic natural event set massive ...

Mount Shasta presents a unique challenge that most other active volcanoes don't for USGS scientists. The only place to sample ...