Commercial pilots reported seeing ash in the vicinity of the mountain, the site of the infamous eruption of May 18, 1980, ...

Good news! Scientists say the next time the supervolcano in Yellowstone erupts, it won't be a humanity-ended explosion.

Strong winds were sending decades-old ash from the 1980 eruption aloft on Tuesday.

Twelve years ago, a volcanic eruption almost totally wiped out life on an island in the Pacific. Now, in the wake of the devastation, scientists are using genetic analysis to see how flora managed to ...

Ash from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens began to swirl around the volcano this week, creating a smoky haze that obscured its summit.

Commercial pilots flying near Mount St. Helens reported a plume of fine ash rising over the volcano. USGS says it's a ...

Strong winds across parts of Washington state have kicked up volcanic ash deposited during the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption ...

New Research Shows How Ash from Kos Island Traveled Over 75 Miles Underwater to Santorini, Reshaping Greece’s Volcanic ...

What Happened? On a seemingly ordinary day, strong easterly winds swept across Mount St. Helens, causing old ash deposits to be lofted thousands of feet into the air. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to ...

In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...