In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

An earthquake hit in America's Heartland, striking in a region sitting above ancient volcanoes that were active billions of years ago.

Africa is slowly changing in front of our eyes, although we can’t see it directly. Scientists have discovered the continent is splitting in two parts, and ...

Most webcams used by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory take a snapshot every few minutes to conserve bandwidth, but three webcams are currently “livestreaming” — meaning they transmit real-time ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...

The changes are most visible in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists say that the Gulf of Aden and the Red ...

When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Researchers have identified 138 candidate subglacial volcanoes hidden beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 91 of which had never been recognized before, raising serious questions about what happens ...

Kīlauea volcano on Hawaiʻi Island erupted again, shooting lava as high as 1,300 feet into the air. This eruption was particularly striking, even for a.

Fluid inclusions in volcanoes are dominantly composed of carbon dioxide. At magmatic temperatures — 2,192 degrees — the density of the carbon dioxide strongly depends on pressure, which is influenced ...