The United States leads the globe with 165 Holocene volcanoes, followed by Japan and Russia. These nations, situated along ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is about to erupt again, according to the United States ...

Volcanoes show us that the Earth is full of life and energy. Some stay silent for hundreds of years, but others are always ...

Learn which countries have the most volcanoes, how volcanoes are formed, why these regions are highly active, and key ...

In a spectacular show of nature’s strength, Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, erupted on June 2, cloaking Sicily in a plume of ash and gas. And while the latest eruption didn’t prompt ...

Volcanoes, with their sheer power and captivating beauty, have mesmerized the human imagination for centuries. These ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than ...

H awaii’s Kilauea volcano sent lava soaring 400 feet into the air last week, resuming an intermittent eruption that has been ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles ...

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the big-name volcanoes like Yellowstone and Mount Etna in Sicily that pose the greatest ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was ...

Traveling out of Baku to the Caucasus Mountains, home of Azerbaijan’s Mountain Jews, is both exhilarating and hair-raising – ...