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

Hawaii’s most active and popular volcano, Kilauea, is preparing to put on a show as geologists forecast the volcano’s 44th ...

The eruptions at Kilauea prompted closures at a national park and part of a highway because of falling glassy volcanic ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

A dormant volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has recently come back to life after more than 400 years of inactivity. The Krasheninnikova volcano began erupting in early August 2025, capturing the ...

The Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano is erupting in Kamchatka following a major earthquake in the region, the Kamchatka Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' (RAS) Geophysical Service said in a ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

Kilauea, a volcano in Hawaii, started erupting Tuesday morning, spewing football-sized particles into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the eruption at ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

As the year 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on the historic past year of volcanic activity on the Island of Hawaii. Thirty-eight episodes of lava fountaining at the summit of Kilauea remind us that ...