A wall of superheated gas and rock fragments tore down the southeastern flank of Mayon volcano on June 9, 2026, traveling 4 kilometers through the Mi-isi Gully before coming to rest in the lowlands below.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The best adventures are the ones that offer tangible history lessons that teach us more about Oregon! This week, we have a dandy in Central Oregon where volcanic eruptions, magma flows and a birthplace of mountains mark the Newberry ...

Mountain regions are facing a convergence of hazards as a major snowstorm disrupts Colorado’s high-country travel while multiple volcanoes, including Kilauea, Mayon, and Kanlaon, remain at elevated alert levels. Authorities have issued winter weather ...

Living among the volcanic peaks of the Cascade Mountains is a part of the reality of life in the Pacific Northwest. But what we don’t often consider — and what many of us don’t really know — is just how dangerous each of those volcanic peaks is.

An active volcanic mountain in the frigid Antarctic is blowing a small fortune’s worth of gold into the atmosphere every day, IFL Science reported — now, all you have to do is get there. Mount Erebus, which joins Deception Island as the only two of ...

Though its last eruption was a century ago, California's Lassen Peak is the centerpiece of a volcanic panorama.

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New software let scientists re-examine old radar images, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes continue to reshape the hellish planet. By Robin George Andrews Witnessing the blood-red fires of a volcanic eruption on Earth is memorable.

An international team of planetary scientists has detected patches of water frost sitting atop the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, which are not only the tallest volcanic mountains on the Red Planet but in the entire solar system. An international team of ...

Yellowstone's geysers and hot springs draw in over 4 million visitors each year, according to the National Park Service. They flock there despite (or maybe because of) the bizarre Yellowstone National Park fact that Yellowstone is actually located on a ...