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

Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...

Getty Image When thinking of the world's most dangerous volcanoes, I am sure you imagine the largest of them. When thinking ...

Deep craters, glowing lava, high peaks: while volcanoes may be dangerous, they increasingly are tourist attractions in their own right. They offer travellers an incomparable experience of nature – ...

Seth Moran is worried about Mount Hood. In the 1780s, the volcano rumbled to life with such force that it sent high-speed avalanches of hot rock, gas and ash down its slopes. Those flows quickly ...

On November 19, 2025, Mount Semeru, the tallest volcano in Java, erupted violently at 4:00 PM local time. The eruption sent a massive column of ash shooting two kilometers into the sky and created ...

Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports. In ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Geothermal energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of the U.S.’s energy output, but by using a technique known as “superhot rocks,” that number could ...

Volcanoes possess the ability to paralyse air traffic, cover the landscape with ashes and destroy villages. In short, an eruption is a life-threatening spectacle. But while volcanoes may be dangerous, ...

When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate ...