Taal Volcano erupted on January 12, causing multiple earthquakes, lava fountains and a huge lightning-flecked cloud ... plates causes volcanoes to be formed, and what triggers a volcanic eruption.

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

Mount Spurr has shown increasing signs of activity. These are now at a level where an eruption is plausible. Nothing is ever guaranteed with Alaskan volcanoes: they can always ...

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Tucked away in the rugged folds of the Ozark Mountains lies Eminence, Missouri, a town so small you might sneeze and miss it, ...

Nagpur: R. B. S. Narayan, a retired meteorologist from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), sheds light on the critical ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

We still don't fully understand what triggers lightning. A new study suggests that showers of cosmic rays may be the missing ...

Their findings suggest volcanic activity altered conditions enough to accelerate oxygenation, and the whiffs are an indication of this taking place. It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere ...

HONOLULU — Lava began bubbling out of Hawaii’s most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilauea’s sporadic eruption resumed. The eruption restarted at midday when when molten rock began ...

These high lava fountains built the prominent Pu‘u‘o‘o cinder cone, which you can view on the Devastation Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Hazards associated with lava fountaining ...