People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

It doesn't need to be Valentine's Day to take your special someone for a romantic getaway. Anniversaries, birthdays, ...

What is the hottest volcano of them all? It depends on how you define “hottest,” but a fascinating new analysis crunches the numbers in a few different ways, using satellite observations of 95 of ...

Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people ... If all the ice vanished, global sea levels would rise by about 200 feet – a little over the height of the Eiffel Tower.

Though Axial Seamount itself poses little direct threat – shield volcanoes are less violent, and tremors here lack the force to create large waves – insights gained may aid efforts to forecast other, ...

The event took place during the last gasp of the Little Ice Age, one of the coldest periods on Earth in the past 10,000 years. While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s ...

"When we used magnetotellurics, we were able to see, actually, there’s not a lot there," said Ninfa Bennington, lead author on the study and a research geophysicist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

geophysicist of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, told the Washington Post. “Nowhere in Yellowstone do we have regions that are capable of eruption,” the magma maven explained. In other words ...

An undersea volcano off Oregon's coast will probably erupt in 2025, scientists say. The volcano, known as Axial, is a seamount 300 miles (480 kilometers) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon. The Axial ...

“The western part of the Yellowstone caldera is waning,” said Ninfa Bennington, a volcano geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and lead author on a paper in Wednesday’s edition of ...

The volcano, called Axial Seamount, is more than 3,600-feet-tall and sits half a mile underwater just 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. Experts made the prediction on December 10 after ...