People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent ...

Bárðarbunga volcano in the north of Iceland could be waking up after an earthquake "swarm" was reported this week.

The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

What's it like standing on the slopes of an active, erupting volcano? Volcanologist Tamsin Mather takes us on her journey to some of the world's biggest volcanoes.

The eruption that began Dec. 23 in a crater at the summit of Kilauea volcano has paused periodically. It resumed Wednesday morning as a “small sluggish lava flow,” and then increased into a fountain ...

a major explosion at one of Iceland's volcanoes, Eyjafjallajokull, sparked worldwide headlines after halting all flights over the UK in what was the biggest global aviation shutdown since World ...