For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises ...

Nope, there’s no visible cinder cone looming for most of this movie, even though Volcano reportedly was inspired by the real-world appearance — right up out of the dirt — of the 1943 Mexican volcano ...

Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary secret buried 200 km (124 miles) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in North ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

As slow-moving lava approached a cemetery in a rural Hawaii town, Aiko Sato placed flowers at the headstone of the family plot she's tended to over the years, thinking it would be the last time she ...

PAHOA, Hawaii — After weeks of slow, stop-and-go movement, a river of asphalt-black lava was less than the length of a football field from homes in a Big Island community Tuesday. The lava flow easily ...

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) - Lava threatening a rural Hawaii town has stopped its slow, forward advance - for now. Hawaii County Civil Defense officials said Thursday the front of the lava flow has been ...

HONOLULU (AP) — As slow-moving lava approached a cemetery in a rural Hawaii town, Aiko Sato placed flowers at the headstone of the family plot she’s tended to over the years, thinking it would be the ...

A once long-dormant volcano in Iceland is erupting again and impacting activity in a populated region nearby. The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at ...

PAHOA Hawaii (Reuters) - A menacing river of molten lava that bubbled over a road and overran a cemetery on its way towards a village on Hawaii's Big Island crossed onto a residential property on ...

REUTERS - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday declared a slow-moving lava flow from the Pu'u O'o vent of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii to be a major disaster, the White House said. The declaration ...