Editor’s note: The KOIN 6 Weather team is presenting weather and science lessons to help serve our teachers and students. Click here for more lessons. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The mighty mountains of ...

The type of volcanic eruption and the variety of volcano that forms depends in large part on the composition of the magma at the time of the eruption. Please read the background information about the ...

I’m going to make you a bet. I reckon within the next week, a story about a volcano somewhere in the world will make headlines that, at the very least, imply an eruption is around the corner. There ...

A series of mysterious eruptions in the western Pacific could be caused by a new type of volcano, a new study suggests. Three processes are responsible for the formation of volcanoes on Earth, ...

Named for the volcanoes in Hawaii, these are the least explosive type of eruptions. Very fluid lava is erupted, usually in the form of lava flows and lava fountains. These are named after the ...

Volcanoes are grouped into four types: cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes and lava volcanoes. Cinder cones are circular or oval cones made up of small fragments of lava from a single ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

It comes as no shock that a potentially new type of volcanic lightning had long eluded scientists: The bolts can be as short as about 3 feet (1 meter) long and last just a few milliseconds. But ...

It’s time to answer the age-old question of who would win between an Olympic sprinter, tortoise, car, you, and a volcano. Linear equations can be used to roughly see how you and other creatures stack ...

Bulletin: ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT SUNDAY... * WHAT...Temperatures between 34 and 38 degrees will result in some areas of frost ...