68 h. ago Kilauea volcano's sporadic eruption resumes in Hawaii as lava pours out of a summit vent

Lava began bubbling out of Hawaii’s most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilauea’s sporadic eruption resumed

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3 d. ago Scientists confirm the Moon once had a huge ocean made of lava

Recent findings have confirmed the dark side of the Moon was once lit by erupting volcanoes

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4 d. ago Is Yellowstone's supervolcano about to erupt? Scientists discover a newly opened volcanic vent spewing steam into the air

Yellowstone has never erupted within recorded human history. But a new discovery has highlighted just how active this seemingly dormant volcano really is.

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5 d. ago US volcano 'set to erupt within weeks' as scientists sound alarm

Mount Spurr, a massive volcano in Alaska, has been emitting higher levels of gas since March 7, and scientists say it could erupt in weeks or months

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7 d. ago Heathrow airport resumes some flights after fire closure leaves thousands stranded worldwide

Counterterror police investigate blaze that caused power cut, upsetting travel plans of up to 300,000 passengers

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7 d. ago Volcano erupts sending massive 26,000ft tower of ash into the sky as fleeing villagers are pelted with falling lava and rocks on Indonesian island

The volcano on the remote island of Flores in East Nusa Tenggara province has had hundreds of earthquakes and visible volcanic activity has significantly increased in the last seven days.

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7 d. ago Bali flights cancelled as volcano erupts sending ash 8km into sky

One person critically injured after Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts for 11 minutes

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7 d. ago Heathrow latest LIVE: Global flights meltdown as fire shuts airport all day leaving thousands stranded

The power cut has thrown airline schedules around the world into disarray as hundreds of flights face cancellation or are forced to divert

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7 d. ago ‘The ground keeps breaking and deforming’: life in Italy’s volcanic Phlegraean Fields

Photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi has been documenting the Phlegraean Fields in southern Italy, where a record 6,740 earthquakes were recorded in 2024, and the seismic swarm has continued in 2025. The volcanic field has been active for more than 80,000 years. It is dotted with craters, lakes and fumaroles as well as roads, factories and the homes of more than 600,000 peopleIn the square in Monterusciello, a few kilometres from Pozzuoli, 12-year-old Angelo Di Roberto climbed into the civil defence bus with his grandfather. “None of my schoolmates wanted to come, but I wanted to” he said. “It seemed like the right thing to do.”He was right. It was important. The authorities were simulating a large-scale evacuation, the kind they would have to carry out in the event of a volcanic eruption in the seismically active Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields near the southern Italian city of Naples.During an exercise to simulate an evacuation in the event of a volcanic eruption in the Phlegrae...

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7 d. ago Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts, prompting alert level to be raised

The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted three times into Friday, sending an ash column 26,000 feet high and prompting authorities to expand the danger zone around the volcano

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7 d. ago Flights leaving Bali cancelled after volcanic eruption shoots ash plume 8km into sky

Indonesia’s 1,700m Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted for 11 minutes on Thursday, causing ash cloud but no damage to nearby villages on the island of FloresFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least seven international flights from Indonesia’s resort island Bali have been cancelled, an airport official said on Friday, after a volcano in the archipelago nation’s east erupted, shooting dark ash 8km into the sky.Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,703m (5,587ft) twin-peaked volcano on the tourist island of Flores, erupted for 11 minutes and nine seconds late on Thursday, authorities said, raising the volcano’s alert status to the highest level.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Heathrow Airport closed LIVE: Updates as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic hub shut following fire

Heathrow Airport says no flights will leave or arrive at the hub - used by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic - on Friday following a fire at nearby North Hyde Electricity Substation

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7 d. ago Jetstar flights to and from Bali are suspended due to volcanic ash

Jetstar cancelled six return flights on Friday morning due to the unsafe conditions.

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7 d. ago Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava

Hilo office, with scientists and their volcano-monitoring equipment, may have lease cancelled from Doge cutsAs Hawaii’s most active volcano shot out fountains of lava on Thursday, some of them reaching as high as 700ft, scientists from the US Geological Survey have been posting regular updates on the scale and pace of the eruptions.But those same scientists, along with their volcano-monitoring equipment, may soon be evicted from their office because of Elon Musk’s federal government cost-cutting, the Honolulu Civil Beat reported. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumes dazzling lava show with fountains hundreds of feet high

Hawaii’s most active volcano has resumed erupting after a weeklong pause, sending fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the sky

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1 week ago ‘Heckuva stretch’: Skeptical judge questions Trump’s defiance over deportation order

Trump administration attorneys stonewall federal judge as he grills them about deportation flights that he ordered not to leave

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1 week ago Earth's biggest extinction event didn't actually kill off everything, boffins discover

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led scientists to think that the volcanic eruption had less effect on land than the seas

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1 week ago Passenger leaves plane in wheelchair after vomiting '30 times' on 'flight from hell'

A British traveller had a six-hour “flight from hell” after he threw up 30 times and had to be rolled away in a wheelchair after eating plane food

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2 w. ago The Rainham 'volcano' ready to erupt: Take a trip to 'Toxic Town'

The Rainham 'volcano' ready to erupt: Take a trip to 'Toxic Town'  BBC.com

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2 w. ago What it's like to live near the Rainham 'volcano' ready to erupt

What it's like to live near the Rainham 'volcano' ready to erupt  BBC.com

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