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

Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, ...

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

“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 ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

“Glaciers tend to suppress the volume of eruptions from the volcanoes beneath them. But as glaciers retreat due to climate ...

MÉRIDA, Venezuela- José Betancourt, 75, climbed to the glacier of Pico Bolívar, Venezuela’s highest peak, 158 times before it ...

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

In a feedback of fire and ice, thinning ice sheets over geologic hot spots could allow more eruptions, while increased ...

And the eruptions can make warming worse, melting more glaciers.

Scientists say glaciers have always acted as reservoirs and floodgates, storing water as snow and ice, and gradually releasing it throughout the year; now water often arrives in unregulated torrents.

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