Volcanic eruptions usually leave behind a trail of ash, disruption, and costly cleanup. In the Philippines, that ash is now being reimagined as a strategic asset, as scientists turn it into a material ...

Effusive eruption at Mayon Volcano in Albay, now in its 28th day, continues to generate incandescent lava flows that have reached a radial distance of 3.7 km from the crater in the Basud gullies or on ...

The Durandag mud volcano, known for its periodic activity, entered a new eruption phase, producing a powerful outburst that ...

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the ...

Mayon Volcano in Albay remains under Alert Level 3 as the effusive eruption persists on its 27th consecutive day, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported yesterday.

A rapidly growing sunspot has fired off at least 18 M-class and three X-class flares in just 24 hours, including an intense ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

Deep beneath the high desert along the Nevada and Oregon border, the United States is sitting on what researchers describe as ...

Rock Island set a trap for the Moline boys basketball team on Friday and used that to not only beat the Maroons at Wharton Field House, but tie them for ...

This map shows the tephra fall associated with episode 41 of Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, on Jan. 24. Tephra is a generic word for any material erupted by a volcano that travels through the air ...

The Pahoa Community Aquatic Center has been closed indefinitely due to volcanic ash, or tephra, at the pool and facility from ...