According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go ...

For more than a century, scientists have blamed Earth’s greatest mass extinctions on colossal volcanic eruptions that flooded the planet with lava and gas. A new study suggests that explanation is ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

Mud volcanoes are often pictured as dramatic geological phenomena featuring the sudden eruption of large volumes of fiery mud ...

Volcanoes are among the most powerful forces on Earth. They can release unimaginable amounts of energy, sending rivers of ...

Contrary to conventional geological thinking, the Hawaiian mantle plume has gotten hotter by about 250°C (480°F) over the ...

The Decade Volcanoes are 16 volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior (IAVCEI) as being worthy of particular study in light of their ...

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau erupted in early July, shooting towering columns of ash hundreds of metres into the sky, but a ...

EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the ...