These hidden volcanoes often go unnoticed, unlike Mount Etna in Sicily or Yellowstone in the U.S., but they erupt more frequently than most people realize. Mike Cassidy, a researcher in…

A team from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, led by Pablo Moreno Yeager, warns that melting glaciers could intensify volcanic activity in Antarctica, North America, and New Zealand — and push…

Archaeologists uncovered the skeletons of two previously unknown victims of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii’s Regio IX district. A man and a woman died in a room…

Classical historian Stephen Tuck of the University of Miami has uncovered new evidence about residents of Pompeii who survived the eruption of Vesuvius. More than two hundred citizens of the…

Scientists can now tell when a volcano is gearing up to erupt by watching how green nearby trees get. Brighter leaves can indicate an imminent eruption. Until recently, those subtle…

Scientists have learned to tell when a volcano is gearing up to erupt by watching the surrounding trees. Before an eruption, those trees often green up—brighter leaves can signal a…