| May 14, 2013
| 11:20 PM
Some volcanoes here in Alaska have been rumbling lately, but federal budget cuts may mean less real-time monitoring of those eruptions.
Since 2008, the Alaska Volcano Observatory’s budget has been cut nearly in half, from 8-million dollars to just...
| May 7, 2013
| 5:24 AM
Cleveland Volcano in southwest Alaska is continuing a low-level eruption that began early Saturday.
However, scientists said Monday that the volcanic explosions on a remote, uninhabited island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage appear to be waning....
| Aug 22, 2012
| 12:04 PM
QUITO, Ecuador — Authorities say 110 families have been evacuated from the vicinity of the Tungurahua volcano, which has been spewing molten rock and ash since the weekend. Spokeswoman Mercedes Taipe of Ecuador’s Geophysics Institute said a...
| Apr 20, 2012
| 4:39 PM
Glowing red rocks were thrown from the top of the active Popocatepetl volcano at dawn Friday, producing more spectacular (and slightly frightening) images from the peak southeast of populous Mexico City. But authorities did not raise the alert level for a...
| Dec 29, 2011
| 9:10 PM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A remote volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands erupted violently early on Thursday, spouting an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the sky and prompting an air-traffic alert, scientists said.
The Cleveland Volcano, located on an uninhabited...
| Sep 7, 2012
| 9:34 AM
The Alaska Volcano Observatory has lowered the alert level for an uninhabited Aleutian Islands volcano.
The observatory says satellite views of 5,675-foot foot Cleveland Mountain about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage show no evidence of eruptions...
| Jun 6, 2012
| 7:24 PM
A Katmai National Park's eruption happened a century ago Wednesday -- but it is still the largest volcanic blast in nearly 200 years, easily loud enough to have been audible 290 miles away where Anchorage now stands.
On June 6, 1912, the Novarupta...
| Jun 19, 2012
| 5:30 PM
A combination of pilot report, web cam images and infrasound data suggested that the Aleutian Island Cleveland Volcano erupted in a short but spectacular fashion on Tuesday.
The stratovolcano about 940 miles southwest of Anchorage erupted around 2:05 p....
| Jun 22, 2012
| 10:40 AM
Scientists have raised an aviation alert level around a remote Alaskan volcano after a small eruption produced an ash cloud several miles high.
Cleveland Volcano, on the Aleutian Islands southwest of mainland Alaska, erupted briefly Tuesday afternoon,...
| Feb 1, 2012
| 8:09 AM
Officials are monitoring a remote Alaska volcanothat could launch an ash cloud, potentially threatening intercontinental flights.
"Eruptive activity" of Cleveland Volcano was detected in satellite data, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
| Jul 18, 2012
| 12:32 AM
It is one of the least visited National Parks in the United States, but what it lacks in tourists -- it makes up for in wonders.
Katmai National Park is home to the greatest concentration of protected Brown Bears anywhere in the world. An estimated 2500...