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18 volcanoes in the USA are classified as “very high threat”, many are in the Pacific Northwest. The United States has 161 young, active volcanoes within its borders. Since 1980, there have been 120 eruptions...

The volcanic island of Krakatau (previously called Krakatoa) is situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung...

The Katla volcano, hidden beneath the ice cap of Mýrdalsjökull glacier in Iceland, has historically erupted violently once every 40-80 years.  In-as-much as it’s last such eruption took place one hundred years ago, in...

From the “this can’t be good” department and AFP: An Indonesian volcano known as the “child” of the legendary Krakatoa erupted on Thursday, spewing a plume of ash high into the sky as molten...

Story by David Rothery Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University Kilauea, the most active volcano on Hawaii, has been in continual eruption since 1983...

  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach As readers of my posts know, I’ve held for many years that there are a variety of emergent phenomena that regulate the earth’s temperature...

While Hawaii's Kilauea volcano continues to erupt, this explosive episode of volcanic activity has already made a dramatic impact on the land, from the summit down to the ocean...

Aerial Survey of River of Lava as it Flows Down Valley in Hawaii  Footage from an Hawaii Army National Guard survey of the Kilauea eruption. Starting with fissure eight, that has developed a sizable cone around it and...

In early May 2018, an eruption on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began to unfold. Here’s what satellites saw in the first few weeks of the eruption. This video is a compendium of satellite views from NASA and other sources...

From the AGU and the “lava tooting” department VOLCANO MUSIC COULD HELP SCIENTISTS MONITOR ERUPTIONS WASHINGTON — A volcano in Ecuador with a deep cylindrical crater might be the largest musical instrument on...

Hawaii's largest freshwater lake is gone. Lava from Fissure 8 boiled away Green Lake, a source of freshwater for the Big Island, in about five hours. A white plume of steam resulted, and lava has filled the former lake.[...]

Volcanoes can "make their own weather," according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) — and the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii is doing just that...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Inspired by Richard Keen’s interesting WUWT post on using eclipses to determine the clarity of the atmosphere, I went to the website of the Hawaiian Mauna Loa Observatory...

Two new fissures cracked open on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano over the weekend, and magma and rock burst into the air. Local Mark Clawson, who hadn't evacuated, told Reuters, "It is a near-constant roar akin to a full-throttle...

Two new fissures cracked open on Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano over the weekend, and magma and rock burst into the air. Local Mark Clawson, who hadn't evacuated, told Reuters, "It is a near-constant roar akin to a full-throttle...