A volcano near Alaska’s most populous city may be preparing to erupt, according to experts who have been monitoring the ...

Mount Spurr is not the kind of lava-spewing volcano familiar from Hawaii, but instead has historically ejected huge plumes of ...

Alaska, largely unspoiled wilderness, looks like something out of The Lord of the Rings.

For the last 10 months, a volcano in Alaska has been brewing for an eruption, and now it's closer than ever. Here's what the ...

Mount Spurr is part of the Ring of Fire, located in southern Alaska. The mountain is a stratovolcano, which means it has ...

The last time it erupted was in 1992, and before that, 1953. Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory have reported ...

Mount Spurr, a volcano near Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, is showing strong signs that it could erupt based on ...

Experts have also observed ground deformations, said David Fee, a coordinating scientist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory. “Basically, as we think magma and fluids rise within the earth ...

"It's about a 50/50 chance right now," said Matt Haney, the scientist in charge of the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage. "So it's equally likely it will or will not progress to an eruption." ...

Scientists said those two things indicate that something is going on underneath the surface, which is likely magma moving ...