As Washington state prepares for mass rain-induced evacuations, here's what climate has to do with extreme downpours.

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous volcanoes such as Etna in Sicily or Yellowstone in ...

This build took 70+ hours of hot gluing and assembling the volcano structure. This Match Chain Reaction resulted in an amazing chain reaction domino of 30,000 matches! Enjoy!Do me a solid and hit the ...

These ghostly hoops have been spotted above volcanic events around the world. But how they form has long been a mystery.

A calm sailboat floats below Mount Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, Italy, where volcanic ash meets the Mediterranean Sea.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is about to erupt again, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The current series of eruption sat Kilauea have been ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...

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” ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has been dormant for all of recorded history. A long-dormant volcano has just erupted for the first time in recorded history. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia's ...

University of Birmingham volcanologist Mike Cassidy argued that the biggest danger could come, not from Yellowstone and Mount Etna, but from hidden volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely ...

Geothermal energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of the U.S.’s energy output, but by using a technique known as “superhot rocks,” that number could skyrocket. This process uses fracking technology to ...

Nov. 24 (UPI) --A volcano in Ethiopia erupted Sunday morning for the first time in at least 12,000 years. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the northeastern part of the country spewed ash and smoke, which ...