A massive volcanic eruption may have helped to set in motion ... in different ways—suggesting that it might be burned llama dung, for example, evidence of burning before a feast or ritual ...

and decision-making during volcanic crises. "A big challenge for petrological monitoring is the coordination of fieldwork and sample transfer during eruption crises to enable fast analysis ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a Soviet submarine base, according to a new study Eli Wizevich History ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe. 4,900 years ago ...

Despite widespread fears of a catastrophic "supervolcano" eruption, scientists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory ... caldera," Stelten said. "For example, the West Thumb of Yellowstone ...

According to the analysis, the devastating eruption of the Laacher See volcano in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate occurred earlier than previously assumed and hence could not have triggered the ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...

A phreatic eruption is a “steam-driven explosion that occurs when water, beneath the ground or on the surface, is heated by magma, lava, hot rocks, or new volcanic deposits (for example ...

An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will erupt near the United States West Coast by year’s end. “The eruptions ...

The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is displaying behavior that indicates an eruption is imminent in 2025, William Chadwick, research ...