Hayli Gubbi is a shield volcano located in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, about 800 km from Addis Ababa. It’s the southernmost volcano of the Erta Ale Range, just 15 km southeast of the continuously active ...

A study suggests that a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The intensity of a volcanic eruption is shaped by how many gas bubbles develop ...

For someone whose knowledge of volcanoes and lava had long been confined to high school textbooks, seeing an active volcano ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...