An underwater volcano in Tonga dramatically changed the global climate by releasing massive steam, not just sulfur.

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As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 centimeter per ...

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

A MASSIVE Alaskan volcano is on the brink of erupting — and terrified experts warn it could happen within weeks. Mount Spurr, ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...

In a significant new study published by The Innovation Geoscience, a Chinese research team has revealed the extent of the ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

A research team has uncovered surprising evidence of cross-border pollution reaching the Arctic, originating from an ...

Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

One of two main craters on Alaska’s Mount Spurr, shown in 1991. Earthquake activity suggests the volcano is close to erupting again in 2025. (Photo by R.G. McGimsey/Alaska Volcano Observatory/U ...