Mount Semeru erupted Tuesday morning, releasing volcanic ash 1,000 meters high and prompting safety warnings for nearby ...

Last summer, my flight home from Catania, Sicily was interrupted when news that Mount Etna—the most active volcano in Europe—was spewing huge plumes of smoke. The skies outside the airport looked like ...

The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person.

Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of the Cascades (particularly Mount St. Helens), this underwater volcano is actually the most active one in the Pacific Northwest. With ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Scientists have been studying the Axial Seamount for three decades. Scientists are predicting that a mile-deep volcano off the U.S. West Coast will erupt this year. The Axial Seamount, an ...

This stunning satellite photo shows one of the world's most famous and potentially dangerous volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius, playing a game of peek-a-boo with an orbiting spacecraft through a strangely ...

Mount Otemanu is one of two peaks of an extinct volcano located at the center of the island. Rising 2,400-some feet above the lagoon, this volcanic remnant makes for a dramatic photo op or an ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The eruption ...