The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025. Tephra is a generic word for any material erupted by a volcano that travels ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

Volcano Alert Level: Watch. Kīlauea has erupted episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, within the summit caldera located within ...

A circular scar on Alaska’s face speaks to an event that may have contributed to the fall of societies on the far side of the world. Two thousand years ago, Alaska’s Mount Okmok volcano spewed ash ...

Research underway with new federal funding aims to solve that mystery, learn how magma forms beneath the reawakened volcano and reveal the structure of its upper plumbing system — the magma reservoirs ...

Wildfire season may be over, but Alaska’s firefighters remain busy. Eighteen firefighters from the Division of Forestry and Fire Protection were sent to Elfin Cove to respond to last week’s storm.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory has been monitoring Shishaldin after signs of unrest over the last month. Video shows steam spewing from the top of the volcano on Aug. 17, 2025. New Social Security ...

Hikers will need to find an alternate route if they plan to explore the Rodak Loop Trail in Chugach State Park. The trail is now closed until further notice due to brown bears in the area. With the ...

Mount Spurr has been returned to a “normal” alert status, with no eruption projected in the near term, months after elevated activity at the volcano triggered a warning from the Alaska Volcano ...

Alaska’s volcano experts no longer expect an eruption anytime soon from Mount Spurr, the closest active volcano to Anchorage. On Wednesday, the Alaska Volcano Observatory formally lowered the alert ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials lowered the alert level for a volcano near Alaska’s largest city to normal Wednesday, which they said indicates that Mount Spurr is “quiet” months after showing ...