For billions of years, Earth’s atmosphere lacked the oxygen necessary to sustain complex life. While scientists have long ...

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 ...

Thermal emission measurements from the exoplanet Trappist-1 b suggest two plausible yet contradictory scenarios ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen ... appearing in Communications Earth & Environment, suggest volcanic activity altered conditions enough to accelerate ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered Earth’s climate.

Scientists warn that the Alaska volcano Mount Spurr is likely to erupt soon, showering ash on Anchorage and potentially ...

Researchers predict the most likely outcome of the unrest at Mt. Spurr is “one or more explosive events” that could last as ...

A huge volcano in Alaska appears to be "moving closer ... In both cases, ash erupted at least 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) in the atmosphere, Haney said. One of the explosions in 1992 sent the ...

A complex web of interactions between geological features including volcanoes, subsurface mantle, oceans and the atmosphere created the chemical mixture necessary for early life to oxygenate our ...