Around the globe, volcanic giants continue their relentless dance with destruction and creation. These geological time bombs ...

Volcanoes are nature's most dramatic rocks, and while their eruptions can be awe-inspiring, they also pose serious threats to nearby communities and global climates. Mount Vesuvius is notorious for ...

About 70 Congolese children who have been unable to find their families four days after a deadly volcanic eruption could be ...

From the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone to the restless peaks of the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” geologists are tracking ...

While the world is certainly full of some dangerous volcanoes that can turn away even the most hardened traveler, there is ...

Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...

Seth Moran is worried about Mount Hood. In the 1780s, the volcano rumbled to life with such force that it sent high-speed avalanches of hot rock, gas and ash down its slopes. Those flows quickly ...

One of the most dangerous volcanoes in America was shaken by hundreds of earthquakes Tuesday morning. Mount Rainier, which the U.S. Geological Survey considers the second most dangerous volcano in the ...

While in Rome, Penny and I took a day trip to Naples, Pompeii and Sorrento. Both Naples and Pompeii sit in the relative shadows of Mount Vesuvius, a small, but potent volcano. We visited the ...