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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

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Tourists and locals appear to be flocking to watch an erupting volcano just outside of Iceland's capital of Reykjavik, which is near the site of another major eruption that spewed magma for months ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feetinto the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...

Geochemical analysis of erupted tephra samples over the past decade help scientists understand the temperature of Kilauea’s shallow magma system under the summit — and things have been “heating up!” ...

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. This photo shows the gap between the south (left) and ...