This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

From calderas surrounded by glaciers and ice fields to the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, Kilimanjaro, these are the world’s most famous volcanoes. Click through the gallery to ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 200 years ago has finally been solved thanks to ash traces preserved in ice cores. In 1831, famous German composer Felix ...

Greece's civil protection minister has called a meeting with Santorini and disaster response officials following an increase ...

While Hawaii is formed by volcanoes, including the highly active Mt. Kilauea, I want to explore an easier-to-reach region: ...

New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that ...

Beaches around the world come in many colors, from the familiar golden and white sands to rarer hues like pink, red, and even ...

The volcano resides along the Sunda Arc — a chain of volcanic islands. Though it has experienced several eruptions throughout history, Mount Tambora is famous for its eruption in 1815. Before the ...

Yet, when we look at the record of volcanic activity, even in the past few hundred ... altering eruptions since 1800 captured by ice core records on both poles, many famous eruptions show up: Tambora ...

Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been “sacrificed” due to a volcanic eruption around 2,900 B.C. that darkened the sky, likely causing crop failure and famine. Short of a ...

With its famous hot springs and gushing geysers ... techniques to find the answers to some of these questions. A volcanic eruption is unlikely to occur at Yellowstone National Park because ...

Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Glacier Peak are four of the active volcanoes in Washington state. The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier.