Magma may have reached very high up in the Earth’s crust, according to Iceland’s Meteorological Office (IMO), which says people will have to “wait in suspense for the next few days” to see how events ...

Scientists are planning to drill into an Iceland volcano in the hunt for near-unlimited energy. The project, helmed by the Krafla Magma Testbed (KMT) organization, is set to start drilling into a ...

Land swelling is common prior to volcanic eruptions, and Professor Thorvaldur Thordarson said the ground is now rising some 5.5 times faster than it did 10 days ago, with the flow of magma into the ...

Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano's magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy. The project, which would be a ...

Magma is the molten material beneath the Earth's crust. It usually collects in a magma chamber beneath a volcano, and can then be injected into cracks in rocks or issue out of volcanoes in eruptions.

The extra magma doesn’t mean it’s more likely to erupt, scientists say. In fact, the better measurement helps them to understand its future. By Robin George Andrews Magma is the explosive lifeblood of ...