Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked, burned and flooded parts of the world in the first months of 2025. What’s next?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why can’t we throw all our trash into a volcano ...

The video opens mere moments after the initial blast: A towering plume of smoke in all shades of grey rises from a green, flat-top mountain above a quiet lake, punching through low clouds before ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have ...

An explosion on Mount Spurr could generate massive cloud of ash, which could mess with airplanes and cause issues for humans. For the last year, Alaska's Mount Spurr has been showing signs of a ...

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Intrigued by reports of recent volcanic eruptions on Venus? WashU planetary scientists Paul Byrne and Rebecca Hahn want you to use their new map of 85,000 volcanoes on Venus to help locate the next ...

WANTAGE TWP., N.J. - About two hours north of Allentown, the Watchung Mountains represent a very unique, if not explosive, New Jersey setting. William Herkerk's home sits at the top of what's known as ...

It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about when the Beemerville Volcano erupted in Wantage, give or ...