When a large volcano erupts, as Mount Spurr appears close to doing about 80 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, it can ...

When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the ...

Jwalapuram came into the spotlight in 2007 when an international team of anthropologists and archaeologists excavated the ...

GNS Science has raised the Volcanic Alert Level for Whakaari/White Island to Level 3 due to a gradual increase in volcanic ...

Ash clouds are made of tiny particles that were lofted into the atmosphere from a volcanic eruption and can have a huge impact, even thousands of miles from the eruption.

Could a volcanic eruption blow ash out of the Earth’s atmosphere? Arleigh Pudlick, Becker, Minnesota No volcano has come close. The Earth’s atmosphere rises about 300 miles, in six layers.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Kitchen, University of Richmond (THE CONVERSATION) Volcanoes inspire awe with ...

This remarkable scientific detective work has revealed surprising insights about how our atmosphere ... or volcanic ash, they create small circular depressions. For these impressions to fossilize, ...

When the Kīlauea volcano erupted in May 2018 on Hawaiʻi Island, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly 5 miles high. A new study by an international team of ...