Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows molten rock, gases, and debris to escape from below the surface. The ...

(CNN) — Here's some background information about volcanoes, mountains that open downward to a reservoir of molten rock. Facts: More than 80% of the Earth's surface, both above and below sea level, is ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

The volcano Uturuncu, located in the Central Andes mountains, has seemingly risen from the dead. While the volcano has not erupted in more than 250,000 years, it has recently shown signs of activity ...

A volcano on Atka Island in the Aleutians has been showing increasing signs of unrest over the past two weeks, and scientists say the uptick in activity is significant enough to warrant a closer watch ...

Deep in southeastern Iran, a remote volcanic massif that most of the world had never heard of is suddenly demanding attention. After roughly 700,000 years without a known eruption, Mount Taftan is ...