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 ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Drew La Pointe, communication ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Many different types of extreme weather can happen in West Michigan but one type we never see are volcanoes. Today we will be learning all about how they form and why they erupt by ...

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 ...

Students use volcanic ash data to determine the source of a possible supervolcanic eruption that occurred in the western United States. Supervolcanic eruptions are extremely large eruptions that ...

There are many different kinds of volcanoes, ranging from the Hawaiian type, which produces gentle, effusive eruptions that tourists can observe from mere steps away, to the andesitic variety, which ...