Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

From witnessing active volcanoes and getting involved in community tourism to exploring stone cities that have stood for ...

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced thousands of earthquakes this month while researchers have ...

Despite being more than 600 kilometres from the nearest volcano, the river averaged 86C. According to National Geographic, that is hot enough “to cook a small animal in seconds.” What makes it ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

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Feb. 6, 2025 — Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has ...

But sometime in the very distant future, there may be a new guest: a sixth ocean. As a result of movement from the East ...

Volcano – typically a cone-shaped mountain that has been erupted from the Earth’s crust, often having a crater. Suitable for teaching geography at KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Maunaloa, share the same source of magma deep within the Earth. For years, scientists believed these volcanoes had completely ...