A Guide to Volcanoes
From Pompeii to Mount Pinatubo, volcanoes might have shaped Earth's surface, but also killed thousands. What makes magma burst from the ground as lava? Can scientists predict dangerous eruptions?
The Secrets of Supervolcanoes
MIcroscopic crystals of volcanic ash are revealing surprising clues about the world's most devastating eruptions
Volcanoes: Nature’s Way of Letting Off Steam
A slide show of eruptions and their impacts around the world
Rebuilding a Volcano
Mount St. Helens may be patching in its 1980 crater

Volcanic Sniffing
Quantum-cascade laser may detect impending eruptions

Moving Mountains
Volcanoes swell and collapse back down in what seem like great, heaving sighs. These movements may help scientists better predict eruptions

What Causes a Volcano to Erupt, and How Do Scientists Predict Eruptions?
Volcanologists cannot yet predict a volcanic eruption

Where will Mauna Loa erupt?

How do volcanoes affect world climate?

Silent Volcanic Quakes Could Portend Tsunamis

Scientific Nature: Researchers Use Volcanic Eruption as Climate Lab
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 it left a trail of evidence in the skies that is helping scientists decipher the workings of the global climate

In Aftermath of Volcanic Eruption, Photosynthesis Waxes, Carbon Dioxide Wanes

Solving a Volcanic Mystery

Why is the earth's core so hot? And how do scientists measure its temperature?
Quentin Williams, associate professor of earth sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz offers this explanation

Erupting Io

What's the Point of Volcano Monitoring?
Some GOPers mock funding of volcano observation programs, but an expert says volcanoes are potentially deadly and should be watched, lest they blow their tops

Tonga volcano spews spectacular plume into South Pacific sky
