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Hayli Gubbi is a shield volcano located in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, about 800 km from Addis Ababa. It’s the southernmost ...

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Volcanoes are often framed as spectacular local disasters, but a growing body of research argues that the most dangerous ...

A startup in Oregon called Mazama Energy is looking to leverage the superhot rocks near Newberry Volcano, one of the most ...

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

The next global volcanic disaster is likely to come from a volcano that appears dormant, writes Mike Cassidy of The ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, long thought to be dormant, sent ash nine miles into the sky in an eruption on Sunday ...

A North Allegheny graduate is participating in an effort at the University of Rhode Island aimed at predicting volcanic ...

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