Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Hawaii’s most active volcano has been erupting intermittently since December. The latest episode sent lava more than 300 feet into the air.

In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Though the volcano’s magma chambers could hold enough material for a caldera-forming event, none of them are likely to erupt ...

Tanzania and Burundi. Rwanda does not stand out much among ... The highest point of the country is at the top of the Karisimbi volcano and is over 4.5 thousand metres. Rwanda is rich in rivers, many ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known that other volcanic giants of ...

Israel began allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return on Monday to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory ... This allows us to map out regions of rock where seismic ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began a new series of eruptions in December 2024. The world's most active volcano, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday. Volcanic activity ...