This image from webcam footage provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows lava shooting up high during an ongoing eruption of Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii Volcanoes National ...

Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

Editor's note:Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update ... was followed by lava flows building a shield and traveling downslope towards the ocean. Kīlauea summit deflated with the onset ...

New Zealand's High Court has cleared the three owners of liability for deaths and harm from a 2019 eruption.