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Oliverio Quira often checks on his cattle near the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. Despite a recent alert about a ...

Even if a volcano is just a few miles away, you might not hear it erupt. How is that possible? It has to do with a phenomenon known as sound shadows! Hank will tell you all about it in this new ...

Located in the United States, one of the world's largest volcanoes is gearing up to explode. It's known as the Yellowstone Volcano, and it's not just any regular volcano. Instead, it's a supervolcano!

Before Sunday, the volcano's last known eruption roughly coincided with the beginning of our current Holocene Epoch, when the ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has been dormant for all of recorded history. A long-dormant volcano has just erupted for the first time in recorded history. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia's ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii- The saga continues as Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano erupts for the 38th time. Starting at ...

A long-quiet volcano in Ethiopia spewed ash nine miles into the sky on Sunday, marking the first known major eruption from this volcano for more than 12,000 years. Under-studied and situated in ...

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the rural northeast of Ethiopia erupted November 23. Afar Communication Bureau via Facebook A volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted Sunday, marking its first known eruption ...

A volcano in Ethiopia has erupted for the first known time in 10,000 years, spewing plumes of thick smoke and ash high into the sky and impacting air travel thousands of miles away in India. The ...

The upcoming activity would mark the 37th episodic eruption since December 2024. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is about to erupt again, according to the United States ...