Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy. The project, which would be a ...

The project, which would be a scientific first if successful, would see boreholes drilled about 1.3 miles down through the earth’s crust at a volcano known as Krafla, located in the northeast of ...

It has been the repetition of the signal that has been most evident at the summit of Kīlauea: lava fountains erupt, pressure ...

Kīlauea summit region has been remarkably quiet, from an earthquake standpoint, since the current eruption began on the night ...

“Kīlauea summit magma system is in a complex balance of magmatic pressure and strength of the surrounding rocks.” This ...

The future of geology — and maybe even renewable energy — is heating up, literally. Scientists in Iceland are steaming ahead with an ambitious project to drill straight down into a magma chamber that ...

Over the past several months, periods of increased earthquake activity and ground deformation in the summit region of Kilauea volcano indicate that magma is accumulating beneath the surface. Where ...