Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic ...

Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was ...

High over the island of Sicily, Mount Etna smolders as Europe’s most active volcano. Underneath its rough slopes, a network ...

Here’s a look at volcanoes, mountains that open downward to a reservoir of molten rock. More than 80% of the Earth’s surface, both above and below sea level, is of volcanic origin. Lava is molten rock ...

The June 12 article on Volcanoes written by J. Hope Babowice was a good-faith effort to inform young readers, but was off on a couple of its facts. Mount St. Helens is a composite volcano, not a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HAWAII COUNTY, Hawaii — The most active ...

Drones can do more than capture high-flying footage, and researchers recently put the unmanned vehicles to work studying a volcano as it erupted. During a research trip to Guatemala, a team of ...

Scientists fear volcano that was ‘extinct’ for 700,000 years has woken up as gas pressure builds - Researchers say that the ...

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations—known as tremor—that occur when magma ...

Lava is molten rock from a volcano that reaches the Earth’s surface. Liquid rock below the Earth’s surface is referred to as magma. More than 50% of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level ...