Mount Taranaki, a volcano in New Zealand, has been granted the same legal rights as a human. This unprecedented move ...

is the tip of an undersea volcano about 50 kilometers off New Zealand’s North Island and was a popular tourist destination before the eruption. It's unclear if the privately owned island will ...

Images snapped from space reveal lava streaming from a fissure in the ground in the area's seventh volcanic eruption within a ...

Sitting at 8,261ft tall, with a six mile radius , Mount Taranaki is the second highest peak on New Zealand's North Island ...

is the tip of an undersea volcano about 50 kilometers off New Zealand’s North Island and was a popular tourist destination before the eruption. Many of those killed and injured were from the ...

Mount Taranaki is a near-perfect volcanic cone surrounded by Egmont National Park, a lush area of forestland forming a ...

This was done at three locations downwind and one upwind of Kaluapele, Kīlauea’s summit crater, with permission from Hawai‘i ...

This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees. The volcano was recently granted the same legal rights as a person.

New Zealand has granted legal personhood to Mount Taranaki, an active volcano revered by the Māori people as an ancestor.

The eruption poses no current threat to air travel but authorities are warning of gas emissions across the surrounding area.

In December 2022, a team of scientists from Aotearoa, New Zealand teamed up with scientists from the USGS Hawaiian Volcano ...