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 ...

Death was everywhere. Animal corpses littered the landscape and were mired in the local waterhole as ash swept around everything in its path. For some, death happened quickly; for others, it was slow ...

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: ...

The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in January 2022 ejected about 2.9 billion tons of volcanic material into the atmosphere and across the South Pacific. In early 2022, a scientific ...

The 2018 eruption of the Kīlauea volcano had unexpected consequences on marine ecosystems thousands of kilometers away. A recent study reveals how volcanic ash triggered a massive phytoplankton bloom ...

When people think about animals and extreme environments, they usually picture survival stories, not transformation. It is easy to assume that when a landscape is wiped clean by something as powerful ...

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 ...