Volcanoes are often framed as spectacular local disasters, but a growing body of research argues that the most dangerous eruptions may come from poorly monitored or even hidden systems that could ...

Mike Cassidy receives funding from the UK's Natural Research Research Council. He is the Co-founder and Chair of the Global Volcano Risk Alliance charity. The next global volcanic disaster is more ...

A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ...

About sixty million years ago, the Icelandic mantle plume—a fountain of hot rock that rises from Earth’s core-mantle boundary—unleashed volcanic activity across a vast area of the North Atlantic, ...

What do the rumblings of Iceland's volcanoes have in common with the now peaceful volcanic islands off Scotland's western coast and the spectacular basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway in Northern ...