(NewsNation) — A recent study says trees may now be able to help detect when a volcano is about to erupt. The study by NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, looking at carbon dioxide levels around ...

A typically quiet volcano in southeastern Iran has risen by about 3.5 inches, and it has not settled back down. This sudden change occurred between July 2023 and May 2024 at the Taftan volcano, a ...

The 2021 "Fagradalsfjall Fires" eruptions may have been triggered by magma pooling just underneath the ground, contrary to what scientists initially thought. An eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano ...

Ash erupted high into the atmosphere from Kīlauea in 2018. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a ...

Between 1347 and 1353 AD, the Black Death — a bubonic plague pandemic — moved across Europe, killing upwards of 50 million people, or an estimated 50 per cent of Europe’s 14th-century population. To ...

The 1975 Kalapana earthquake brought big changes to lives of the people affected by the fatalities and damage, as well as big changes to our understanding of Kilauea’s south flank. Scientists at the ...