“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

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.

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas carrying the bubonic plague.

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 ...

A Russian volcano that once blew itself apart in a massive explosion is now rising from the ashes—faster than scientists expected. Decades of hidden activity have reshaped its entire structure, ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

Borobudur’s significance declined sharply, not only from volcanic damage but also due to the fall of its patron dynasty and ...