Mauna Kea When you think of the tallest mountains, instinctively, Mount Everest comes to mind. But here's a shocker: Mauna Kea in Hawaii takes the crown as the tallest volcano on Earth. Measuring over ...

Sep. 30, 2024 — The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research has revealed its main ... Extinct Volcanoes a ...

A red-hot lava flow two miles long has been attracting crowds to the slopes of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, Italy.

Towering aloft like a column of smoke and fire, Otto Klemperer “volcano of Wiesbaden,” brandished the baton relinquished last week by Eugene Goosens as guest conductor of the New York Symphony ...

Back in 1959, the volcano spewed an "awesome and terrifying" lava fountain 1,900 feet (580 m) above its vent, according to the USGS. But even Tuesday's eruption posed problems to USGS equipment.

“We think it can help systemize volcano studies, and provide a key piece of global frameworks for volcanic hazard assessment.” Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Greece is a land of rich history and breathtaking landscapes, home to large volcanoes that have shaped the country’s terrain over millennia. Some of these volcanoes lie within popular tourist ...

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.

Violent eruptions have started up again in Hawaii, with fountains of lava shooting hundreds of feet into the air and toxic gas belching from the crater.