PROF. RUSSELL'S beautiful volume is, in some sense, a companion to Sir Archibald Geikie's account of the volcanoes of Great Britain; but whereas the latter deals with volcanic relics of all ages in an ...

When the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Center in Trinidad and Tobago first received word that the La Soufrière volcano in nearby St. Vincent and the Grenadines was showing increased ...

SALEM, Montserrat -- Scientists have learned a lot from the Soufriere Hills volcano in the five years it has been erupting, destroying life and property -- lessons they hope will save lives in the ...

Editor’s Note: Shane Cronin is a Professor in Volcanology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has published more than 200 scientific papers on the chemistry and physics of active volcanoes ...

The yawning crater of Mount St. Helens is obscured by clouds on an early May day as monument scientist Peter Frenzen leads a group along the Hummocks Trail through the jumbled landscape of the North ...

Red ash began rising from the Puu Oo vent on Hawaii’s Kilauea after a magnitude 5.0 earthquake May 3. The vent’s crater floor collapsed April 30, triggering the first earthquake and a major shift in ...