Helgi Hjorleifsson, a firefighter, is a leader in a national experiment to steer rivers of lava away from important sites.

A new detection method called “Jerk” could dramatically improve how scientists forecast volcanic eruptions. By using a single broadband seismometer, the system can detect extremely subtle ground ...

The fragile-looking filaments of cooled lava known as Pele’s hair can form when pockets of bubble-rich lava pull apart rapidly, experiments suggest. Among all the ways that molten rock can solidify ...

Currently, scientists struggle to forecast volcano eruption events, as no universally reliable, real-time eruption forecasting framework is available. Instead, researchers often rely on retrospective ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

When the sixth-strongest earthquake ever recorded hit Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula last week, it triggered tsunami warnings around the world as waves rippled across the Pacific as far as the U.S., ...