Volcano
Alaska volcano's ash prompts flight cancellations
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Alaska volcano eruption is prompting regional airlines to cancel flights to nearby communities, including a town that reported traces of fallen ash.
Date: 05/20/2013 | Northwest
Volcano ash reaches Alaska city
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.
Date: 05/19/2013 | Northwest
Alaska volcano shoots lava up hundreds of feet
Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.
Date: 05/18/2013 | Northwest
Philippine volcano spews rocks, killing 5 climbers
MANILA, Philippines -- One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash after daybreak Tuesday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater in its first eruption in three years, officials said.
Date: 05/06/2013 | Nation & World
Low-level eruption at Alaska's Cleveland Volcano
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's Cleveland Volcano is undergoing a continuous low-level eruption following an explosion early Saturday morning, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Date: 05/04/2013 | Northwest
Dome grows in Alaska's Cleveland Volcano
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's Cleveland Volcano is heating up and scientists are on alert in case it sends up an ash cloud that could threaten trans-Pacific flights.
Date: 02/06/2013 | Northwest
Scientists: Bulge at Oregon volcano barely growing
BEND, Ore. -- A bulge near the prominent Cascade Range volcano known as South Sister has nearly stopped growing, scientists say.
Date: 02/05/2013 | Northwest
Alert level lowered for Alaska volcano
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Monitors have lowered the alert level for a remote volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Wednesday that Cleveland Volcano was lowered to yellow, which means unrest is elevated but decreasing.
Date: 11/21/2012 | Northwest
Mass of volcanic rocks float off New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been found floating off the coast of New Zealand.
Date: 08/11/2012 | Nation & World
