A Canary Islands volcano pushed rivers of molten lava through the earth. Now scientists and explorers trek through the cooling underground, looking for insights into life on this planet—and perhaps on ...

Turning red-hot lava from an active volcano into electricity would be dangerous and unreliable. Volcanoes don’t erupt on predictable schedules, and lava cools too quickly. But many countries, ...

Scientists in the United States are preparing to drill into one of the country’s most closely watched volcanoes in a bid to ...

Indonesia, a country famously made up of some 17,000 islands, is known for many things: fried rice, friendly people, Komodo dragons, Bintang beer, toothsome satay, emerald rice terraces, stunning ...

A long-dormant "supervolcano" in southern Italy is inching closer to a possible eruption — nearly six centuries after it last erupted, according to European researchers. The Campi Flegrei volcano, ...

Poor weather can ruin vacation plans made months in advance, but one group of islands is world-famous in part due to the pristine, mild weather that it offers year-round. Spain's Canary Islands are ...

New research showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever documented. New research ...

Lava flows from a fissure in the aftermath of eruptions from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, May 22, 2018. Andrew Richard Hara/Ena Media Hawaii via Getty Images But not all lavas are the ...