Volcanologist Martin Mangler explains how volcanic eruptions work to push lava into the air. Listen on the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

A peer-reviewed study published in Science argues that Yellowstone’s volcanic system owes its heat and magma not to a deep ...

As a deadly outbreak of Ebola continues to spread across the Democratic Republic of Congo and the wider Great Lakes region, the European Union has pledged €170m towards the health and humanitarian ...

This chapter summarizes the principal conclusions and recommendations developed elsewhere in this report. Major conclusions are printed in italics and recommendations in bold. Basic research in the ...

Lanzarote is not a destination where you have to spend days ticking off a seemingly endless list of museums and art galleries. It does have a few of those, but a trip here is more about appreciating ...

One of the most active regions in the world is the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to the USGS, this region is where the ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

Ice-age sea-level declines may have turned seafloor volcanoes into natural iron fertilizer for plankton, potentially enhancing ocean carbon storage, Boston College researchers report in the journal ...

Discover the amazing science behind volcanic eruptions in this fun and easy-to-understand educational video for kids and curious minds. Discover how magma rises from deep inside the Earth, why gases ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...