A series of photos taken between 2022 and 2024 shows the emergence and rapid disappearance of a volcanic "ghost island" off ...

A new study shows that ground water levels responded to forcing by barometric pressure pulses from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga ...

In 2019, Bougainville’s independence referendum was a landslide in favor of new nationhood: 97 percent voted yes, with more than 85 percent turnout. The referendum was mandated by the 2001 ...

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea this Tuesday, according to the German Research Center for Geosciences. The ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...

A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of local residents and tourists at the ...

Breakthroughs have included the development a free web tool, PlumeRise, which gives more accurate estimates of the amount of ash injected into the atmosphere during a volcanic eruption because, ...

A new sister city partnership has been established between Poplar, Wisconsin and Madang, Papua New Guinea.

Now, a new study adds an additional—and explosive—consequence to the list of changes: melting glaciers are likely to make volcanic eruptions more frequent and severe.

Dozens of flights to and from Indonesia's Bali island were cancelled Monday after a volcano belched a colossal ash tower 18 kilometres (11 miles) into the sky, authorities said.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey.