Mount Ibu in North Maluku erupted again on February 16, 2026 early morning. PVMBG reports its activity at Level II, advising ...

When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

What may look like a single volcanic eruption is usually the visible outcome of far more complicated activity taking place underground. Beneath the surface, magma can migrate, cool, mix, and ...

The recent earthquake swarm near Santorini has brought the topic of volcanoes in Greece back into the spotlight.

The mass starvation in Gaza has called into question how famine is defined and measured. On Aug 22, 2025, the Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) ...

Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakalā Volcano, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place ...

Hidden in the Pacific, two very different volcanoes are forcing scientists to rethink what counts as “biggest.” Tamu Massif, a shield-like giant buried beneath the northwest Pacific, spent years ...

A new scientific revelation reveals that deep in the Earth’s core lies a good amount of hydrogen as well as a large amount of iron. While the iron in the core has always been recognized as dominant, ...

TRAILBLAZING Two and a half years ago, my brother hatched a scheme to visit every one of the U.S. National Parks. We’re not ...

New orbital data reveal that the most recently active volcanic systems on Mars weren’t simple one-off blasts into space.

One of California’s largest freshwater lakes, Lake Berryessa is about an hour's drive from downtown Napa in the Vaca Mountains. “It has plenty of things to do: swim, kayak, paddleboard, [and] other ...

Every curling stone that slides across the ice at the Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo traces its origin back to this ...