More than a century has passed since the last eruptions of Mount Lassen and Mount Shasta, yet both remain active and ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than ...

Hayli Gubbi, a shield volcano in northern Ethiopia, erupted for several hours on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 23 — the first ...

Lassen Volcanic National Park announced it closed its main through-road on Wednesday after wet autumn storms dumped heavy snow and ice in the Shasta Cascade mountains east of Redding. But you can ...

Europe's largest active volcano is constantly monitored for its next eruption. Scientists have discovered a novel way to predict the next eruption at Mount Etna, the active volcano on the Italian ...

Scientists have discovered a novel way to predict the next eruption at Mount Etna, the active volcano on the Italian island of Sicily. Researchers at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and ...

A circular scar on Alaska’s face speaks to an event that may have contributed to the fall of societies on the far side of the world. Two thousand years ago, Alaska’s Mount Okmok volcano spewed ash ...

TOKYO — The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has laid out detailed procedures to follow in the event of a volcanic eruption near the capital, including specific steps to deal with ash from Mount Fuji.

California’s volcanic giants are hard to miss. Mount Shasta looms over the Oregon border. Lassen Peak, the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range, erupted just over a century ago, blasting ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...