When Mount Pelee erupted and killed the entire population of 30,000 people on the island of Martinique, only one man survived, a prisoner who happened to be locked up in a partially underground jail cell. Learn more...

Russian photographer Dmitry Ivanov visited the Ijen volcano complex in Indonesia took pictures of people mining fresh sulfur deposits there. He writes (as rendered by Google Translate) of the hazards experienced by the...

(Video Link) Mt. Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii is erupting at the moment. Here's aerial footage of lava spilling into a huge fissure. The helicopter in the upper part of the shot gives you a sense of the sca...

Ludger Sylbaris of St. Pierre, Martinique was lucky enough to be arrested for getting into a drunken brawl. The prison cell that he was placed into saved his life when a volcanic eruption destroyed the city on May 8, 19...

The Daily Telegraph has compiled a 31-image slideshow of amazing photographs of the volcano currently erupting in Iceland. Scientists aren't sure why electrical discharges are visible during some volcanic eruptions, but...

Who knew there were so many volcanoes in the news? If you were a volcano blogger like D...

When we think of volcanic disasters, the first cou...  ...re the four widely considered to be the deadliest volcanoes ever.Mount Tambora, 1815 Mount Tambora's 1815 er...  ...than 30,000 deaths. Between just these first two volcanoes , I'm thinking Indonesia was not the greatest plac...  .... Pelee – it&r...