Nestled in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle, Dallol is a geological marvel and Earth's hottest inhabited place. The place is all about acidic pools, salt formations, and vibrant hot springs. It boasts an ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Last year’s massive eruption of a volcano in Tonga produced the most extreme lightning ever recorded 1. The underwater mountain, called Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai, set or tied many records ...

Photographs supposedly documenting vibrant, blue-hued molten rock erupting from a volcano in Ethiopia were shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 20, 2023, (archived here).As of this writing, the ...

Hopes that residents in an Icelandic fishing town could celebrate Christmas at home have been dashed after the violent eruption of a nearby volcano on Monday night.. The volcano on Iceland’s ...

Volcano erupts on Japan's main southern island 00:32. An undersea volcano erupted off Japan three weeks ago, providing a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but one expert said it "may ...

A volcano dramatically erupted in Iceland on Monday, with spectacular bursts of lava and smoke illuminating the night sky after weeks of seismic activity prompted the evacuation of a nearby town.

Hawaii’s second-largest volcano began erupting Wednesday morning, displaying a dynamic fiery show after three months of inactivity. The action at Kilauea volcano is confined within a closed area ...

Photographs shared to social media depicted a volcano in Ethiopia as it “erupts blue lava.” While the two photographs were authentic, they did not show “blue lava” erupting from a single ...

A volcano that has not erupted in 250,000 years has shown signs of returning to life. Scientists warned that an eruption could cause widespread damage and seriously threaten life.

The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean and 300 miles off the Oregon coast, but it is showing signs it will soon erupt for the first time since 2015.

Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists don’t think those signs spell trouble.