Louisa Wright 01/17/2022 Most volcanic activity happens beneath the ocean — but we often don't know about it. DW looks at how underwater volcanoes form and what happens when they erupt.

It has also urged the evacuation of areas within 14km of the volcano. The graphic below shows how the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates causes volcanoes to be formed, and what triggers a ...

AS Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues to release lava following two weeks of violent eruptions, now is a good a time as any to explore the science behind the rocky magma-spewers. And we’… ...

Scientists have recorded "huge" carbon dioxide levels from Iceland's Katla volcano which has led to reports an eruption is imminent. Katla, Icelandic for “kettle,” last erupted in 1918, and it ...

The largest volcanoes in Earth’s history owe their formation to powerful geological phenomena called mantle plumes—upwellings of abnormally hot rock within the Earth’s mantle that rise ...

You may be surprised to learn that hundreds of volcanoes erupted along the entire eastern side of Australia over the past 100 million years. This volcanism also extended offshore to New Zealand ...