Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava ...

During lava fountaining episodes, strong volcanic tremor (a signal associated with fluid movement) is recorded on seismic ...

Magma is the molten material beneath the Earth's crust.

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New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as the volcanoes ...

A 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle, one of the Earth’s layers. Ed Marshall, a geochemist at the University of Iceland, donning protective gear, ...

Lava erupts from the Sundhnúkur volcano on June 3, 2024, on the Reykjanes Peninsula near Grindavik, Iceland. The volcano has erupted five times since December 2023, forcing evacuations of Grindavik ...

A Martian volcano once thought to be the result of a single eruption turns out to have a much more complex past. Orbital imaging and mineral data show it developed through multiple eruptive phases, ...

When engineers began drilling into an Icelandic volcano named Krafla, things took a turn for the weird. The team’s objective was to approach the boundary of a magma reservoir 2.5 miles below the ...