A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

CASTAIC, United States: An explosive new wildfire erupted north of Los Angeles on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and setting nerves jangling in an area ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began a new series of eruptions in December 2024. The world's most active volcano, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday. Volcanic activity ...

Plumes of smoke rise as the Hughes Fire burns in Castaic, Calf., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. AP Photo/Ethan Swope The College of the Canyons also closed for the day out of an abundance of caution.

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 ...

A minor phreatic eruption was monitored at Taal Volcano early Wednesday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said. According to PHIVOLCS, the eruption from Taal ...

Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been “sacrificed” due to a volcanic eruption around 2,900 B.C. that darkened the sky, likely causing crop failure and famine. Short of a ...

(UPDATE) TERNATE, Indonesia — A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least ... sent a column of smoke up to four kilometers into the sky in an eruption on Wednesday.

It was one of 1,079 eruptions by the volcano recorded since January 1 by Indonesia's Geological Agency, sending columns of ash reaching between 0.3 and 4 kilometres above its peak, according to ...

Gas sensors signal changes in volcanic fumes, and GPS sensors monitor and measure ground deformation. With researchers monitoring Mount Rainier so closely, Iezzi said if a big eruption were to ...

Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive eruption of a volcano north of Japan. The year 1831 was a very nasty one in terms ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York ... The Kilauea volcano began erupting on December 23, but so far eruptions have remained confined to the Hawaii Volcanoes National ...