Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Episode 42 ended after 9 hours and 48 minutes with both the north and south vents active for most of the eruption. The ...

Spectacular videos show several volcanoes erupting and spewing fiery lava. Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego, meaning volcano of fire, began spouting a constant stream of molten lava on February 23. It's ...

HAWAII — The Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island stopped erupting on Sunday after flowing for almost 10 hours. At its highest, the fountain of lava soared 1,300 feet in the air from the south vent, ...

With monstrous plumes bursting from the water and shimmery streaks of electric light, Devon Massyn said it was one of the craziest things he has ever experienced.

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...

A dormant volcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has recently come back to life after more than 400 years of inactivity. The Krasheninnikova volcano began erupting in early August 2025, capturing the ...

Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a ...

Nearly 600 years ago, a massive volcanic eruption sent clouds of sulfurous gas and ash high into the atmosphere. The blast known as the 1458/59 CE event was so huge that it triggered decades of ...

And although those volcano eruptions are not part of a trend, experts have said, the volcanoes in question are far from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...