See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of ...

The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the air. Photos of the geological spectacle at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ...

Photos show newly-uncovered footprints, formed as Bronze Age people trampled a freshly-ejected layer of volcanic material when they ran away. Known as the Avellino eruption, the 1995 BC event ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the air. Photos of the geological spectacle at Hawaii Volcanoes National ...

Residents of Hawaii have been sharing video and photos of the Kilauea volcano's spectacular eruption as the most... Lava erupts in the Halemaʻumaʻu Crater of the Kilauea Volcano on January 6 ...

NASA scientists have been left baffled by satellite pictures showing a ... islands have been spotted around the volcano since its first recorded eruption in 1861. Nasa said: "A May 1861 event ...

(See dramatic photos of volcanoes around the world ... can help signal the start of potentially dangerous eruptions of farflung volcanoes.) Unlike earthquakes, volcanoes rouse from sleep with ...

Scientists think the eruption spewed out enough ... which snapped the photos of the ‘ghost’ island. Picture: SWNS After a flurry of volcanic activity, an island had risen above the water ...

Some of the volcanic rocks are up to 6 million years old, while others were left by eruptions that happened as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the Global Volcanism Program at ...