Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 7 about the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a university. It is Denison University, not Dennison. A corrected version of the ...

Volcanoes are one of Earth’s most dramatic wonders bursting with glowing lava, shaking ground and giant clouds of ash. But what actually makes a volcano explode? Scientists say the answer lies deep ...

A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. The eruption also may explain a weird ...

America’s deadliest volcano has just rattled through more than 1,000 tiny earthquakes in a matter of days, a drumbeat of tremors that has revived old fears about catastrophic mudflows racing down its ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Small volcanic eruptions help explain a hiatus in global warming this century by dimming sunlight and offsetting a rise in emissions of heat-trapping gases to record highs, a study ...