volcano

Researchers have found that glacial erosion and melting ice caps both played a key role in driving the observed global increase in volcanic activity...

The asteroid that slammed into the ocean off Mexico 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs probably rang the Earth like a bell, triggering...

An international team of geoscientists have demonstrated how magma-filled cracks form and spread underneath volcanic systems, such as the one...

Scientists are using volcanic gases to understand how volcanoes work, and as the basis of a hazard-warning forecast system.

Cambridge scientists and PhD students are at the forefront of monitoring the activity of the Bárðarbunga volcano in Iceland. The research group, led...

Little known volcanoes in one of Africa’s most stunning locations are to be explored in a bid to understand the threat they pose to life, livelihood...

A century after members of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition climbed Mount Erebus, the University of Cambridge’s Professor Clive Oppenheimer has...

As earthquake experts worldwide reflect on an Italian court’s ruling to convict scientists on manslaughter charges for failing to predict the L’...