Volcanic Eruption News

A new study claims earthquakes and volcanoes are responsible for the diverse nature of the ocean's coral reefs.

Volcanologists who monitor eruptions of Alaskan volcanoes are scrambling to cope with US federal budget cuts - even as the Pavlof volcano, 1,000 kilometres southwest of Alaska's biggest city, Anchorage, spouts a towering ash plume that is threatening plane flights.

A new method of sourcing the origins of artefacts in high definition is set to improve our understanding of the past.

Witnessing life in Goma, a city that's been invaded, ransacked, inundated with refugees, and flattened by a volcano -- all in the last 17 years.

Alaska Airlines says that few of its flights have been affected by the release of ashes from two volcanoes.

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some near Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla.

It's kind of a "That's no moon" moment in real life - a series of discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s led geologists to realize that most of Yellowstone National Park was one giant volcanic caldera.

One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, which has been belching ash and spewing lava since last week, has forced regional flight cancellations and dusted some nearby communities with ash, scientists and local officials said on Monday.

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

Vasco da Gama arrives in India, Christopher Columbus dies, Norman Rockwell makes his Saturday Evening Post cover debut, HIV is discovered, and "Cheers" airs its series finale, all on this day.

Anchorage - Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward on Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.

One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes has shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air in an ongoing eruption that has drawn attention from a nearby community but isn't expected to threaten air traffic.

Unravelling the mysteries of the world around us is all in a day's work for Victoria University researcher Dr Mark McGuinness.

This week he's been exposed. There was little thinking on what modern Conservatism might be like.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in mid-eruption, traps First Officer Spock over a boiling ocean of lava.

Mount St. Helens in eruption on May 18, 1980 showing portion of crater and Mount Adams in background.

Volcano National Park, at the centuries old Volcano House hotel. This hotel has been an icon of Hawaiian hospitality since 1846, and it overlooks the Halemna'uma'u Crater at the summit of the active Kilauea Volcano .

For the second time in a month, a volcano in Alaska 's remote Aleutian chain has erupted, spotlighting America's most active portion of the Ring of Fire.

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash.--Thirty-three years ago on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and changed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

Mount Pavlof, a volcano that is part of Alaska's Aleutian Arc, is currently erupting and sending ash 20,000 feet into the sky.