Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Researchers found that magma chambers beneath Cascade Range volcanoes persist even when the volcanoes are dormant, ...

Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, began erupting on Tuesday in an impressive lava flow emerging ...

But one island country in Africa combines relaxing on the beach with the possibility of climbing a massive active volcano. That would be Cape Verde, which has become a popular destination for ...

A Travel + Leisure A-List advisor dishes on how to go beyond wildlife spotting in East Africa. Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

Nearly 3,000 people were killed over the last week as rebels captured a key city in one of the deadliest battles in the ...

Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents of searing lava, as the African volcano Nyiragongo did in January, 2002. But most deaths resulted from secondary causes in the wake of an ...

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.