Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

Massive plumes of smoke, ash, and liquid magma flow from the Big Island of Hawaii’s gargantuan volcano.

Months before the Geldingadalir volcano erupted in 2021, Iceland's volcanologists knew it was coming. A subterranean serpent of magma was coiling through the depths looking for a way out. As the magma ...

Magma is the molten material beneath the Earth's crust. It usually collects in a magma chamber beneath a volcano, and can then be injected into cracks in rocks or issue out of volcanoes in eruptions.

A 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle, one of the Earth’s layers. Ed Marshall, a geochemist at the University of Iceland, donning protective gear, ...

In many ways, water seems opposite to lava; its role is to support life, not destroy it. Despite their surface-level differences, the two are more similar than we think. The solution to the geophysics ...