Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to speculation ...

Gemechu Bedassa Teferi, a researcher who studies the volcanoes of the Main Ethiopian Rift ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing ...

What’s next? Lava is erupting from several volcanoes, including one in Hawaii. Nearly 50 volcanic eruptions have been recorded this year, and more are expected. The Axial Seamount, an underwater ...

MORONI, Comoros (Reuters) -- Inhabitants of Grande Comore, the main island of the Comoros group, were warned at the weekend that their island's volcano could soon erupt. In messages read on state ...