Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

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About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that ...

Deep in southeastern Iran, a remote volcanic massif that most of the world had never heard of is suddenly demanding attention. After roughly 700,000 years without a known eruption, Mount Taftan is ...