Volcano

Thousands of people in St. Vincent and the Grenadines have fled their homes as the La Soufrière volcano, located in…

On Friday, the small Caribbean island of St. Vincent became the epicenter of the seismic world when La Soufriere…

Scientists on-site at Iceland’s erupting volcano near the capitol city of Reykjavik cooked up some hot dogs on…

Volcanoes can kill you in many different ways. Are you on their slopes? A volcanic avalanche of superheated ash and…

In March 2016, a research team dropped 39 seismometers to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the western tip of…

When a colossal plume of ash and lava exploded from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991, few people probably…

Indonesia’s Anak Krakatoa volcano began erupting this past weekend. On Saturday, it spewed a stream of thick, white…

Three months and countless Olympic swimming pools of lava later, Kilauea seems to have pressed the pause button on…

Kilauea’s days of pumping old, stale magma to the surface are officially over and done. According to scientists with…

After three weeks, the eruption at Kilauea volcano’s lower East Rift Zone shows no signs of abatement. In fact,…

In news that is sure to inspire some action-packed disaster movies, scientists have determined that the time between…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a sign that we’re all about to die? Well, I can’t speak to that last one, but I…

As arguably the world’s most active volcano, Hawaii’s Kīlauea presents a unique opportunity for researchers who want…

If an active volcano nearby suddenly kicks up its activity with steam, smoke, and below-ground rumblings, it’s a…

Even eruptions from the usually-gentle Hawaiian volcanoes can pack a hidden punch. The hot, molten splatter of lava…

Tanaga Island is a tiny patch of beauty, fire, and rock stranded in the Bering Sea. The picturesque island is a…

Et tu, BBC? That absolutely gorgeous footage of the eruption in the BBC documentary Patagonia: Earth’s Secret…

Yes, that’s a pretty big plume of smoke you see coming out of Tanzania’s Mount Meru volcano—but contrary to…

Here’s beautiful footage of lava flowing from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. The hot red burning orange lava oozes its…

It looks like a giant fire scaled dragon snaking its body across the scorched Earth. Or like the fire brick road…