Lava fire flares up as it flows down dirt road, a result of the 2014 Kilauea Volcano eruption and lava flow. (Kelly Hudson/FEMA) For weeks on end last year, Darryl Clinton watched the Kilauea Volcano ...

Volcanic activity will mark the 31st time Kilauea has erupted since December. One of the most active volcanoes in the world is living up to its reputation as it gears up for another eruption. An ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...

A massive volcano has erupted in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula region for the first time in centuries, just days after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked the area. The ...

Russia’s Krasheninnikov volcano erupted for the first time in centuries on August 3, sending ash and gas nearly four miles into the atmosphere—less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of the ...

When most people think of erupting water, they probably have geysers, like Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, in mind. However, Kilauea and its diverse style of eruptions are also ...

Extreme drought, rather than a planetary winter, might be humanity’s biggest challenge in the years after a huge volcanic eruption 1. Global temperatures can plummet after a large eruption, if the ...

As global temperatures increase because of climate change, glaciers around the world are melting—contributing to rising sea levels, more extreme weather events, and habitat loss for all sorts of ...

According to the British Geological Survey, there are around 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth. Perhaps surprisingly, 82 of those volcanoes are located in Europe, which is not necessarily the continent ...

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 ...

We climbed one of Kenya’s most incredible volcanoes, Mount Longonot, and it turned out to be one of our favorite hikes ever.