For years, scientists believed the volcano and its surrounding ecosystem were extinct.

The mile-high Wolf volcano in the Galapagos islands spewed fire and lava into the early morning sky Monday, threatening the ecosystem that Charles Darwin once studied. The volcano, which erupted for ...

Spread the loveIntroduction In a remarkable advancement in our understanding of underwater geology, researchers have made significant discoveries at Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano ...

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

The Axial Seamount, the most active volcano in the Northeast Pacific, is showing strong signs of preparing for another eruption. Recent seismic and geophysical studies, reported in Nature ...

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...