Volcano

Scientists have been studying the Axial Seamount for decades. They predict it’ll erupt again in 2025.

A pungent odor that originated in Southwest Washington and wafted into Portland in recent weeks has left residents wondering where it’s coming from and what it could be.

After relatively little change over the past five years, the Axial Seamount appears to be waking up. And now an Oregon scientist has issued a new prediction of when it will erupt next.

A University of Oregon coffee chemist and a team of volcanologists have found a way to up your coffee game: adding water before grinding your beans. His team’s study on reducing static charge in coffee is featured in the science journal, Matter.

Northwest scientists are going to great distances – and great depths – hoping to help us understand our volcanic risk closer to home.

Hawaii's Kilauea began erupting inside its summit crater Thursday after scientists detected a glow in webcam images inside the Halemaumau crater.

The scientists aboard the research vessel Thompson are trying to answer complicated questions about what makes volcanos, specifically the Axial Seamount, tick. But sometimes the most serious scientific inquiry can face "crabotage."

Scientists are seeing new signs that magma is moving deep within the Three Sisters volcanic complex in Oregon’s Cascade Range, but there are no signs of imminent eruption.

Despite sitting almost on top of the volcano that erupted so violently, the Pacific nation of Tonga appears to have avoided the widespread devastation that many initially feared.

The region's most active volcano, the Axial Seamount, is 300 miles off the coast of Oregon.