Q How do volcanoes form, and how did the volcano of Pompeii show up? — Andrew Vigliotta, Mount Horeb, Wis. A Clifford Thurber, professor of geophysics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Some ...

Some scientists think we can better understand volcanoes by learning how the gaseous vortexes emerge. By Carolyn Wilke Some volcanoes perform a rather subtle trick: blowing rings of vapor that waft ...

Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic ...

Scientists have long wondered how volcanoes formed in central Anatolia despite being far from tectonic plate borders—now they've found evidence of a hot plume of magma flowing from East Africa. Riders ...

(How volcanoes form—and why they erupt.) Their results, published in the journal Scientific Reports in 2023, revealed that these smoke rings are made much in the same way that cigarette smokers blow ...

Understanding how magma behaves could help researchers forecast volcanic eruptions Madison Goldberg A team of researchers compiled data from volcanoes around the world, including Cleveland Volcano in ...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano, located on the island of La Palma within the Canary Islands of Spain, has been erupting since September. Scientists from around the world are flying into La Palma so they can ...

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...