Satellite imagery has revealed the dramatic extent of an eruption that kicked off just before Christmas, with fountains pouring lava across hundreds of acres.

Summit inflation continued and the eruption resumed around 5:45 p.m. HST on December 26. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) continues to closely monitor Kilauea and is in contact with ...

Apart from wearing hiking boots, "we weren't ready for the reality" of the trip, one of the women told Newsweek.

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“An explosive eruption occurred at the summit vent of Kanlaon Volcano at 3:03 pm (0703 GMT) today,” the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said in a statement on Monday.

Ferracane said if he had gone over the edge, it would have been a certainly fatal, 400-foot fall into Kaluapele, the volcano’s summit caldera, and “a horrible way to remember Christmas.” ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years later, scientists have identified the “mystery volcano.” The eruption was one of the ...

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s climate, scientists have identified the source: the Zavaritskii volcano in the remote Kuril Islands. For almost 200 years ...

When most of us think of volcanoes, we think of molten lava spewing up from the earth and melting everything in its wake. So it may be hard to believe that in a quiet Carlsbad neighborhood lies an ...

Lava is bubbling through the crust of one of the world’s most active volcanoes, which is Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island ...

A toddler almost plunged into an erupting volcano on Christmas Day, with his mother grabbing him "in the nick of time". The near-miss happened at the edge of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii ...

Scientists from the University of St Andrews say they have discovered the exact volcano that erupted in 1831, leading to a global cooling of approximately 1C. The team discovered it was the ...