Scientists from Mexico's National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl ...
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How AI unveiled Popocatépetl’s hidden magma pools

What’s more nerve-wracking than climbing an active volcano? Climbing it with kilos of delicate equipment, knowing that a single eruption could send both scientists and sensors hurtling downhill. Over ...
If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico spent five years hauling instruments up the 5,426-meter volcano ...
Magma may have reached very high up in the Earth’s crust, according to Iceland’s Meteorological Office (IMO), which says people will have to “wait in suspense for the next few days” to see how events ...
Iceland is facing "an increased risk of an eruption" in the coming days, as magma accumulating in the Earth's crust under the Reykjanes Peninsula reaches a comparable volume to when the last eruption ...
Researchers have mapped the magma plumbing system beneath Tonga's underwater volcano and discovered three magma chambers, two of which fed the record-shattering 2022 eruption. When you purchase ...
Magma continues to accumulate in a chamber beneath Svartsengi and has now reached levels thought to have triggered the volcanic eruption that sent lava flowing into Grindavík on Jan. 14. When you ...
Learn why Yellowstone mysteriously does not produce sulfur dioxide, and what it means for volcanic unrest.
One notable incident came on May 22, 1919, when a barrage of eruptive activity caused a 1,000-kilogram (2,205-pound) block of ...
WHITE PLUMES. Taal Volcano in Batangas records a minor eruption, spewing whitish plumes at 4:36 p.m. on Dec. 26, 2025 as shown in this screenshot of a video posted on Facebook by the Philippine ...