PUCARE, Colombia — Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the ...
For a year, Hawaiʻi’s Kilauea volcano has been erupting in dramatic bursts that have lit up the night sky, drawn crowds to ...
The eruption lasted for just over 12 hours. Kīlauea spewed more than 3 billion gallons (16 million cubic yards) of lava during this event—enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools. The eruptive ...
Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...
Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of ...
New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...
Top middle photo: view of the new puʻu a few days after episode 36 on November 10. Top right photo: scientist takes a precise ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.
Fifty years ago this month, the largest Hawaii earthquake of the 20th and 21st centuries occurred. Earthquake shaking, as well as ground subsidence and local tsunami, contributed to a catastrophic ...