When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the ...

The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica reached its largest size following the eruption. Mount Pinatubo proved the value of early warning measures for volcanic activity. Thanks to small ...

Could a volcanic eruption blow ash out of the Earth’s ... The highest volcanic column measured on Earth, from Mount Pinatubo in 1991, rose only 22 miles. But that was above the troposphere ...

Volcanic ash can also wreak havoc on infrastructure by clogging water supplies, short-circuiting electrical systems and ...

Ash clouds are made of tiny particles that were lofted into the atmosphere from a volcanic eruption and can have a huge ...

A fishing village in southwest Iceland was evacuated Tuesday after lava began spewing from a volcanic eruption, the eighth to hit the region since the end of 2023. Mount Spurr, a stratovolcano ...

Volcanic ash forms when viscous magma ... rescue and power networks, as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines dramatically demonstrated. During an ashfall event, the most ...

A fishing village in southwest Iceland was evacuated Tuesday after lava began spewing from a volcanic eruption, the eighth to hit the region since the end of 2023. The Icelandic Meteorological ...