There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a flower field in July, the buzz of bees layered under birdsong, the ...

A snowcapped backdrop to Seattle and Puget Sound, Mount Rainier is a slumbering giant that last erupted in the 1890s. An active volcano, Mount Rainier has erupted dozens of times throughout its ...

Mount Rainier is America's most dangerous volcano. Scientists warn lahars could devastate 150,000 people with little warning.

While we're all worried about World War Three erupting, it's worth keeping an eye on some more natural disasters as well. Although the Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State is home to one of the ...

After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade Range occurs? Triggered by a ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

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Two major volcanic eruptions have occurred within days of each other—one in Indonesia and another in Ethiopia. Indonesia’s Mount Semeru burst into activity on November 22, followed a day later by ...

A satellite image shows ash rising from the eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia as it drifts over the Red Sea, November 23, 2025. NASA/Handout via REUTERS A volcano that had remained ...