My family stayed in Stromboli, an island off the north of Sicily. My kids loved playing with black sand and watching the ...

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...

Scientists trace the source of Santorini quakes to deep magma flow, challenging fault-based theories with new volcanic ...

They found that magma was moving in the cracks created by the fault system 6 to 9 miles beneath the surface. Because the ...

Underwater volcano lurks off the Oregon coast The massive undersea Axial seamount volcano reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed about 300 miles off Oregon. It last erupted in 2015. “A ...

Axial Seamount, by contrast, is a volcano that, during eruptions, oozes lava—similar to the type of eruptions in Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii. As a result, Axial's eruptions are not ...

Axial Seamount, by contrast, is a volcano that, during eruptions, oozes lava — similar to the type of eruptions in Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii. As a result, Axial's eruptions are not ...

The work reveals how volcanic chains like the Cook–Austral Islands, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, and Wake seamounts are linked not only to each other but to much larger volcanic events in Earth ...

By sampling deeply submerged seamounts near Wake Island—where the seafloor holds some of the Pacific’s oldest volcanic secrets—Finlayson’s team found key clues.

The volcano, formerly called Loihi Seamount, is about 22 miles off the Big Island’s southeastern coast and will one day become the youngest of the Hawaiian Islands when it finally grows tall ...