Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms. Global warming could awaken dormant volcanoes, triggering a chain reaction with unpredictable consequences. This recent discovery sheds light on ...

Some of those volcanoes peak above the surface, but others sit several kilometers beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Climate change is causing the ice sheet to melt, raising global sea levels.

An "unusually large" ice volcano in Iceland could be about to blow after more than 130 earthquakes hit the region in a five-hour period, experts say. The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern ...

The event took place during the last gasp of the Little Ice Age, one of the coldest periods on Earth in the past 10,000 years. While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s ...

Melting ice may cause dozens of volcanoes beneath Antarctica's colossal ice sheet to erupt and trigger a troubling feedback loop of environmental damage, scientists have warned. A new study by ...

They analysed ice core records from the event in ... as an "extremely productive" volcanic region. Volcanoes are formed when a hot liquid like substance called magma breaks through the Earth's ...

“Ice volcanoes” were spotted on the shores of Lake Michigan on Monday, January 6, as frigid temperatures and snow moved through the region, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). Nathan ...