One of Earth’s largest volcanic events did far more than create the Ontong Java Plateau beneath the Pacific Ocean. Scientists ...

Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the ...

July 14, 2026. The Philippines’ Mayon volcano continued spewing lava and rocks in the early hours of Tuesday (Jul ...

Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped ...

The world’s largest oceanic plateau may have formed through a mantle process more complex than previously thought. Credit: Stock A thermochemical plume may explain how Earth’s largest oceanic plateau ...

About 7,300 years ago, Kikai produced the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, a giant event that released an estimated 133 to 183 cubic ...

Mountains often feel permanent. They stand above clouds, survive storms, and appear unchanged across generations.

Calderas are vast crater-like depressions left when a volcano empties enough of its underground magma chamber for the ground ...

The Aegean Sea holds secrets that not even the Olympian gods could imagine. Beneath its waters, the tectonic plates dance a ...

Nazaré, Portugal, is home to some of the world’s biggest waves. The reason lies beneath the surf, in the form of Europe’s largest underwater canyon.

In 2025, professor Bruce Houghton retired from the University of Hawaii at Manoa after 25 years as the Gordon A. Macdonald chair of volcanology. He was only the second person to hold the position in ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often overlooked insights into volcanic eruptions—offering important lessons for ...