Volcanic Eruption News

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash.--Thirty-three years ago on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and changed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

Mount Pavlof, a volcano that is part of Alaska's Aleutian Arc, is currently erupting and sending ash 20,000 feet into the sky.

Columns of gas and ash 3 kilometers high were detected after two strong explosions from the Popocatepetl volcano, Mexico's Cenapred disaster-management agency said Friday.

This weekend marks the 33nd anniversary of 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens that killed 57 people and forever altered the local environment.

Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.

Autumn is a great time to plant trees, shrubs and hardy winter plants, as the soil is neither too dry nor too wet.

So begins National Geographic staff writer Rowe Findley's gripping firsthand account of the events leading up to the massive May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St.

In this photo provided by the Alaskan Volcano Observatory, the Pavlof volcano erupts Thursday.

Humans can believe we have "dominion" over the Earth, but Mother Nature always begs to differ.

This photograph of damage to a home caused by the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in 1980 was taken by Lyn Topinka.

Astrophile is our weekly column on curious cosmic objects, from the solar system to the far reaches of the multiverse Named Methone, this small, oval moon was seen in close-up for the first time last year by NASA's Cassini spacecraft .

Like the snake, the right rear tire in this burnout video sheds its dead and decaying skin at 0:52 . But then it soldiers on, unfazed, into perpetuity, like the ouroboros.

What seems like a cute reference to the old TV show is actually symptomatic of the myriad problems of Star Trek Into Darkness , a film that uses the fact that you're a lame nerd who likes Star Trek to distract from the fact that it's somehow more dumb and ponderous than its dumb, ponderous title -- that is, until its reference just serve to point ... (more)

A view of the north side of the Pavlof Volcano erupting on Thursday taken by a pilot flying at 6,000 feet.

In the opening scenes of Star Trek Into Darkness , Spock is dropped in the middle of an active volcano.

In a paper published in the journal last month, authors Anthony Bonato, Dieter Mitsche, and Pawel Pralat describe a mathematical model to disrupt flow of information in a complex real-world network, such as a terrorist organization, using minimal resources.

The opening scene of "Star Trek Into Darkness" immediately thrusts the audience onto the red planet Nibiru, where Kirk and Bones must madly dash to escape from massive monsters and a swarm of natives, all while a volcano threatens to erupt and spew smoking, lava-drenched rocks in their direction.

Volcanoes are rumbling in both the Arctic and the tropics of North America, while other eruptions continue on an Italian island and in the frozen tundra of Russia.

Steam and ash clouds are occasionally rising to 20,000 feet from an active Alaska volcano.

The plethora of Earth doomsday movies this season shows us all kinds of landscapes of a far future post-Armageddon. Because the Manhattan skyline is so iconic, New York City is often the backdrop for these implausible imaginary futures.