A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red ...

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

The last time Kolumbo experienced a major eruption was 1650, coughing out ash seen as far away as Turkey. Pyroclastic flows – fast-moving, searingly hot clouds of volcanic ash and gases – killed 70 ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is currently spewing fiery red-orange lava up to 250 feet high from its north vent – in what’s called "Episode 8" of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption.

Scientists in Iceland say there is an increasing likelihood that a volcano, which has erupted several times since the end of ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted on February 4, spewing lava and molten rock 50 metres into the air, dramatic images show.

Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the birth of a new ...

As residents flee the Greek Island of Santorini after a spate of tremors earlier this month, we look back at a catastrophic ...