I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As ...

Learn about the largest active volcano on Earth Mauna Loa in Hawaii. Discover its massive size, eruption history, and ...

This image from webcam footage provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows lava fountains shooting up high ...

Kīlauea Volcano’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater began erupting again on Wednesday, with lava fountains reaching more than 1,000 feet in ...

Lava fountains reached heights of more than 330 feet (100 meters) and feeding multiple lava streams. Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the fountains were ...

Mount Etna produced a spectacularly explosive eruption Monday, sending a ripple of reddish clouds down from the southeast ...

That’s certainly the case at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ... the world’s largest shield volcano—the opportunity to (safely) witness some eruptive activity or get up close to a lava ...

Axial is a shield volcano similar to those found in Hawaii or Iceland. When it erupts, it doesn’t blow its top. Instead, lava seeps through cracks on its slopes, flowing slowly across the seafloor.

The method was applied to samples from three Hawaiian volcanoes representing different evolutionary stages: Kilauea, an active "shield" volcano, showed magma storage at shallow depths of 1–2 ...

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island sprang to life yet ... ravaged nearby communities with its unceasing lava flows. But as a shield volcano, Kilauea doesn’t have explosive, Mt.