Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...

"Volcano early warning systems exist," said volcanologist Florian Schwandner, chief of the Earth Science Division at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, who had teamed up with ...

Volcanoes often give little warning before they erupt, but now scientists have discovered an unexpected early warning sign—trees. This new finding comes from a joint study by researchers from NASA, ...

Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008 for the first time inn 9,000 years. NASA satellites that monitor changes in vegetation near volcanoes could aid in earlier eruption warnings.