The tallest volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna, and the world's most active volcano, Kilauea in Hawaii, erupting again.

A string of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean — known as the “Ring of Fire” — is the most active on Earth out of all volcanoes. Should a large-scale eruption happen, it could cause extensive ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory said signs indicated a Mount Spurr eruption was likely, though not certain, in the weeks or ...

Yellowstone National Park, the Hawaiian Islands, and American Samoa are all landscapes formed by hotspot volcanoes. Hotspots are also found in Iceland, in the Afar region of Africa, and under the ...

When the Laki volcano erupted in 1783 in Iceland, it rained down so much sulfuric acid that it devastated farmland and wiped out half of all livestock. The next year, a full quarter of Iceland's ...

The team found that all of the volcanoes, including dormant ones, have persistent and large magma bodies. The study, led by postdoctoral researcher Guanning Pang, was published in Nature ...

Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire is erupting, and authorities have evacuated nearly 300 families while warning that another 30,000 ...

See where lava is flowing: Volcanoes are erupting all over the world Since December, each episode has lasted from hours to several days, and periods of inactivity in between have lasted hours to ...

"Three out of every four live volcanoes on Earth are here,” says National Geographic. “Almost all earthquakes happen here, too." The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics − giant ...