Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The mighty mountains of ...

A new submarine volcano was formed off the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 2018. This was shown by an oceanographic campaign in May 2019. Now an international team has illuminated the ...

May 16 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a new type of volcano formation. While studying the planet's layers deep beneath Bermuda, scientists found evidence of volcanic material rising from the ...

Students use volcanic ash data to determine the source of a possible supervolcanic eruption that occurred in the western United States. Supervolcanic eruptions are extremely large eruptions that ...

Mount Etna - Brief Anatomy of an Exceptional Volcano By guest blogger Dr. Boris Behncke. Italy truly deserves to be called "the Cradle of Volcanology" - not only because it hosts virtually all ...