New research has identified a 35,000-year-old basalt eruption as the youngest at Yellowstone, shifting our understanding of ...

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.

RENO, Nev. -- Scientists long have believed that mass extinctions are triggered by sudden global changes in climate. Some of these cataclysmic events, like the one originally assumed to have wiped out ...

A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called “flood basalt eruptions” might significantly warm Earth’s climate and devastate the ozone layer that shields life ...

Lava erupted through a fissure in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Dec. 18, 2023, shooting almost 100 feet (30 meters) in the air in its early hours. Icelanders had been anticipating an eruption in ...

Recent research has shed light on a fascinating connection between ancient continental breakups and current volcanic activity ...

The Palisades cliffs west of New York City rear up from the Hudson River like the spine of some ancient beast—and that impression is not far off. Their basalt backbone is a remnant of an immense lava ...

Erupting from fiery volcanoes, lava has historically been an uncontrollable force that destroys buildings and neighborhoods in its wake. But what if that force could instead be redirected and ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...

The Frenchman Coulee basalt columns (up to 75 feet high) are said to have been formed when Ice Age floodwaters flowed down the Grand Coulee and across the Quincy Basin. Lee Walter Recently my grandson ...