Mount Kīlauea on the big island of Hawaii has been spewing lava for over a month now. Thousands of acres have been covered by new molten rock, and it's flowing out into the sea. When that happens, lava will cool, harden...

Somehow, I was under the impression that the entir...  ...excavation has uncovered its first victim of the volcano , and his fate appears to foreshadow that of a cer...  ...dividual survived the first eruptive phase of the volcano , and subsequently sought salvation along the alle...

A volcanologist volcanos . How cool would that be? Well, "cool" might not b...  ...le live near one of the world's 1500 or so active volcanos . What volcanologists learn can help them to stay safe. Mental Floss ta...  ...them to stay safe....

Yellowstone National Park's many thermal mineral s...  ...on could simply be to cool a supervolcano down. A volcano the size of Yellowstone is essentially a gigantic...

The 1815 Tambora eruption led to the worldwide "Year without a Summer" in 1816. We have plenty of evidence of the cause and effect for that one. But there are records of a similar event, with even larger consequences, fr...

[https://youtu.be/6OI0Kz6xfwE] (YouTube link) Volcanoes are cool, except when you're in danger of being k...  ...ohn Green tells us all kinds of neat things about volcanoes

When we say a volcano is dormant, that doesn't mean that it's dead; it...  ...ome time. Iceland has more than its fair share of volcanos , and the nation is treating those volcanos as a national resource. A resource of thermal ene...  ...source. A resource of thermal energy t...

You might be surprised to know that there are more...  ...e surprised to know that there are more than 1500 volcanoes that have erupted during the Holocene era. Which...  ...is tops on the list of the nations with the most volcanoes . Russia comes in second, although this list will...  ...so bigger nations would...

As tectonic plates move away from each other, they...  ...es open, magma erupts into the ocean, forming new volcanoes . The magma builds up to form ridges in the middle...  ...and so deep, we don’t know much about these volcanoes …yet. Isobel Yeo of the Helmholtz Institut...  ...EOMAR research that...

Mick Kalber is a pilot for a helicopter tour compa...  ...ndeed pleased with the sacrifices made at Kilauea volcano . Or something like that. [https://youtu.be/e8PuM...  ...fts in the dark crust of the lava bubbling in the volcano ’s crater, revealing a huge smiley face. How...  ...people can say they&rsq...