What would happen if Yellowstone’s ‘supervolcano’ erupted today?

A major Yellowstone eruption likely won’t happen for thousands, and potentially millions, of years. Scientists say that the magma underneath Yellowstone is mostly solid and not eruptible. One study ...
Earth.com

Giant volcano eruption cleaned methane from the atmosphere

Scientists say a massive 2022 volcano eruption may have helped break down methane, offering new clues in the fight against ...
Science Daily

A supervolcano nearly wiped out humanity 74,000 years ago, but humans did something incredible

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological ...
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Yellowstone nearing eruption as new study finds magma brimming below the surface: scientists

Will Yellowstone erupt or are we blowing things out of proportion? We may have underestimated Yellowstone’s potential to blow its stack in the future. Chinese scientists have made a disconcerting find ...
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Yellowstone supervolcano is inflating a 19 mile wide bulge

Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of Earth’s largest volcanic systems, and right now that system is slowly reshaping the ground. Instruments show that the Yellowstone caldera is inflating into a ...
BGR

This Forgotten Volcano Erupted For The First Time In Over 10 Millennia

On Sunday, November 23, 2025, Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia's Afar Region, erupted for the first time in recorded history. Scientists think the last time this volcano blew was somewhere between ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Team studies Mexico’s most eruption-prone volcano

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico -- In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Think a Volcanic Eruption May Have Kicked Off the ‘Black Death’

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...
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Sakurajima volcano eruption sends 11,500ft ash plume into the sky in Japan

This is the dramatic moment the Sakurajima volcano erupted in Japan today, sending an 11,500ft ash plume into the sky. Footage shows the volcano releasing a towering ash column over Kagoshima ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For 25 Years, the Smithsonian’s Global Volcanism Program Has Kept Weekly Tabs on Volcanic Eruptions Around the World. Here’s How They Do It

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 ...
Reuters

Stone Age people in South Africa unharmed by supervolcano eruption

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A supervolcano eruption about 74,000 years ago on Indonesia's island of Sumatra caused a large-scale environmental calamity that may have decimated Stone Age human populations ...