Want to add some heat to your hikes? Try these six active volcano hikes, from Japan to Italy to Guatemala and everywhere in between.

The eruption began Dec. 23 in a crater at the summit of Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes. This marks the eruption’s eighth episode. Small, sporadic spatter fountains began ...

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Visitors looking for the "real Japan" may find it on a new long trail two hours from Tokyo that shows off the country's ...

In this image captured from video released the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, a webcam shows lava fountaining from Kilauea volcano within the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Scientists hope a mix of artificial intelligence and human expertise will help decipher ancient scrolls ...

While you can’t hike to the top, several short trails offer stellar views of Sunset Crater. Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is a small park, and a convenient detour, on your way to or from ...

Martyn Evans was told he would be fined for disembarking at Darlington, near his home, rather than waiting until Durham, where he works at the university’s philosophy department. The state-run ...