The island of Montserrat is a British territory in...  ...a British territory in the Caribbean. In 1995, a volcano that had been dormant for centuries erupted and h...

Kelimutu is a volcanic peak in Indonesia that has three crater lakes, each displaying water with a different color! The Lake of Old People (Tiwu Ata Mbupu) is blue, the Lake of Young Men and Maidens (Tiwu Nuwa Muri Koo F...

Among the legends of ancient Rome is that of a sib...  ...opens to a passageway that is heated by an active volcano . Robert Paget and Keith Jones spent years removin...

[YouTube Clip by Richard Roscoe of Photovolcanica] Campers in Ethopia threw a bag of garbage into a volcanic crater to see what would happen. The bag broke through the thin crust covering a pool of magma and allowed t...

Photo: Carlos Gutierrez/Reuters...  ...of Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano in 2011: The water and frozen-a...  ...The water and frozen-ash particles, said [ volcano seismologist Steve McNut]t—who'...

In a clip from the BBC TV show Richard Hammond...  ...t a really fresh sample of lava. Mount Nyiragongo volcano , in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, contain...

You may hear jokes about "oceanfront property in Arizona," but in the distant past, it really existed. In fact, 1.75 billion years ago, the area was undersea. However, there was a lot going on down there where tectonic p...

Desert sun overhead, volcanic forces beneath your feet, and the average year-round temperature is 94F (34C)! This is Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, where the ground springs forth with lava and hot mineral springs that e...

Kawah Ijen is a volcanic crater lake in East Java, Indonesia. This is no ordinary lake, but a pool of sulfuric acid. Miners harvest sulfur from the caldera, carrying it miles by hand, with little to protect them from...

After filmmaker James Cameron set a depth record f...  ...ree people into the molten lava core of an active volcano . In its first three years of operation, VVS1 w...  ...operation, VVS1 will target the five most active volcanoes in the world: Etna, Stromboli, Yasur, Ambrym and...