A volcano erupted in southern Iceland, near the town of Grindavík and the Blue Lagoon spa, marking the region's seventh ...

Tourists were evacuated from the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's national broadcaster RÚV reported. Some can be seen venturing ...

In January 2022, the most powerful explosion ever recorded with modern instruments rocked the South Pacific. Now, scientists ...

However, what Iceland does have in abundance are volcanoes. By accident, the Iceland Deep Drilling Project uncovered magma just 2.1 km deep beneath the search while researching the energy ...

Millions of years ago, this sheet transported magma towards Earth’s surface during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. In the present-day, humans are releasing vastly more carbon dioxide than all ...

Volcanologists have established a correlation between magma buildup under a volcano and subsequent eruption. But they don’t know exactly how much magma is needed to help trip an eruption.

At the surface, eruptions may have stopped, but deep in the crust and mantle, magma was still releasing carbon dioxide, leading to prolonged climate warming. "We call this CO2 from the subsurface ...

Askja’s last eruption, in 1961, was milder, and for decades after, the volcano was quiet. But in 2021, Parks and other scientists keeping tabs on it were shocked to find that in just a few months, the ...

Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.