The United States leads the globe with 165 Holocene volcanoes, followed by Japan and Russia. These nations, situated along ...

A 2,500 km long line of volcanoes, with 80 volcanic mountains and 41 historically active (since 1760 AD) volcanoes produce an arc stretching along the southern edge of the Bering Sea and onto the ...

The Earth's outer layer is made up of a series of moving, interacting plates whose motion at the surface generates earthquakes, creates volcanoes and builds mountains. Geoscientists have long sought ...

A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...

Why this happens is unclear, but the MIT team says that two of the determining factors are the speed of the tectonic plate and the size of the seabed swell caused by the plume. Based on a study of 14 ...

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of volcanoes and earthquakes since the 1960s ...

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Let's get one thing out of the way: The supervolcano below Yellowstone is not going to erupt anytime soon; neither are any of the other similar systems that geologists have identified around the world ...

For the first time in roughly 12,000 years, a long‑quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, sending fountains of ...