Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii Getty Images/Andrea Pucci The young man was found dead ...

A team of geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history with its source deep beneath the Pacific ...

A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes continued to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from deep within the Earth long past their period of ...

This video shows an aerial view of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, where rugged volcanic mountains, deep valleys, and winding ...

Massive volcanic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions contributing to an extreme global ocean deoxygenation event over 120 million years ago has modern day implications for understanding a climate warming ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

The Bermuda Triangle has long been cast as a place where ships and planes disappear without explanation, but scientific evidence suggests a far more conventional mix of geology, weather and heavy ...

Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.