Learn more about the likelihood of an explosive Mount Spurr eruption, which would spew clouds of ash into the air above ...

What’s next? Lava is erupting from several volcanoes, including one in Hawaii. Nearly 50 volcanic eruptions have been ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S. Geological Survey and Alaska Volcano Observatory to issue a yellow alert.

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Magma is molten rock - rock that is so hot it has ...

Alaska officials have scheduled a geothermal lease sale covering a little more than half of Augustine Island, which consists almost entirely of 4,133-foot Augustine Volcano. The state Division of ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

A recent alert put out by the Alaska Volcano Observatory indicates that Mount Spurr — an 11,070 foot (3,370 meter) volcanic peak located 75 miles west of Anchorage — is showing signs of ...

Volcanic and seismic activity were on the rise under a volcano named Mount Fentale, but the gas that began spouting out of the ground wasn’t what you’d expect from an impending eruption.

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Composite volcanoes are the most common type of ...

What’s next? Lava is erupting from several volcanoes, including one in Hawaii. Nearly 50 volcanic eruptions have been recorded this year, and more are expected. The Axial Seamount, an underwater ...