The Taal volcano has started spewing lava and has released a huge plume ... saved through an evacuation of the area surrounding Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines. On that occasion, advance ...

Current Status: Nyiragongo remains highly active, with its lava lake frequently rising and falling. The threat of another deadly eruption is ever-present for the residents of Goma. Mount Pinatubo ...

Giant fans are sucking carbon out of the air. There are plans to ‘re-ice’ the Arctic and use aerosols to bounce sunlight away ...

The Yellowstone caldera has been eroded, filled in with lava flows and ash from smaller ... Some kind of eruption—perhaps a modest one like Mount Pinatubo's in the Philippines, which killed ...

Last week, the Japanese government revised its volcanic hazard map for Mount Fuji for the first time in 17 years. This comes as new data shows that lava flows from a major eruption could spread as ...

As with the disaster at Mt. Pelée, the shocking loss of life caused ... spewed out vast quantities of lava for months. Ultimately, about three and a half cubic miles of lava gushed from the ...

Few enduring lava lakes are known globally; the one at Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the South Atlantic may be only the sixth such example. The 990m-high stratovolcano's setting makes it ...

A revised hazard map for volcanic Mount Fuji in central Japan suggests the volume of lava flow from a major eruption would likely be double that of previous estimates. The updated finding was ...

Since 1700, volcanic eruptions have killed more than 250,000 people. They can devastate communities and landscapes, wipe out life, and cause other natural disasters. Help your students examine the ...

Europe's most active volcano is back at it. Italy's Mount Etna has erupted again, ejecting lava and ash into the Sicilian sky. The volcano, which has erupted every few months this year ...

They can have violent eruptions and can grow bigger as layers of thick lava and ash harden on top of each other. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes ...