Lake Taupo-area scientists in New Zealand raised the alert level of a volcano sitting beneath the country’s largest lake on Tuesday after detecting 700 small earthquakes below the surface since May.

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New Zealand scientists on Tuesday increased the alert level for the volcano below the country's biggest lake, which caused the largest eruption on earth in the past 5,000 years when it last exploded ...

Scientists monitoring a supervolcano responsible for the biggest eruption on the planet in 5,000 years have raised an alert. A shift in the activity of Taupō, in New Zealand, has been detected ...

New Zealand officials have raised the aviation alert code for the offshore volcano Whakaari/White Island, which is emitting large steam and gas plumes and occasionally ash. “The volcano is not ...