The Inuit tell stories about the year that summer never arrived. Tree rings from 1783 confirm that the Laki volcano in Iceland caused the cooldown.

New research clears up a longstanding question about explosive volcanic eruptions like the ones at Mount St. Helens in 1980.

Steamboat Geyser reawakened in 2018 after three and a half years of dormancy. Does that foretell an eruption in Yellowstone National Park?

Sir David examines how wildlife adapts to the forces of nature, such as volcanoes, in a new series.

Mass extinction of land animals happen on a 27-million-year cycle, researchers report. The timeline matches periodic asteroid impacts and volcano eruptions.

Specially-adapted drones, developed by an international team involving scientists from the University of Cambridge, are transforming how we forecast eruptions

The atmosphere on Jupiter's moon Io is a witches' brew made from the sulfurous burps of more than 400 volcanoes. Now scientists know how it got that way.

Indonesia has a warning system for tsunamis generated by earthquakes – but not volcanoes.

Volcanoes give lots of clues which help scientists work out if they are about to erupt.

Icelandic authorities have recently raised the threat level of the Grímsvötn volcano.