The most alarming case may be West Antarctica, where more than 100 active volcanoes lie buried beneath the ice. One glacier ...

The concept isn’t hypothetical. Tephra layers in Icelandic peat cores show that eruptions soared six-fold between 12,000 and ...

Learn more about the connection between melting glaciers and volcanic eruptions, a volatile relationship that has existed ...

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes.

Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger explosive and potentially deadly volcanic ...

Chilean volcano study shows melting glaciers remove pressure that suppressed eruptions for thousands of years.

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ice sheets have suppressed eruptions for thousands of years, building up ...

For centuries, glaciers have sat like frosty crowns atop slumbering volcanoes, keeping Earth’s fury tucked safely beneath ...

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

The work confirms the theory that the pressure applied by heavy ice makes it harder for magma to reach the surface, instead ...

Hundreds of dormant volcanoes across the globe—particularly in Antarctica—could become more active thanks to climate change.

“Over time the cumulative effect of multiple eruptions can contribute to long-term global warming because of a buildup of greenhouse gases,” Moreno-Yaeger explained. “This creates a positive feedback ...