Chief Scientist at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, used the metaphor of a boiling pot of water. “If you know how hot the burner is, how much water there is, that calculation is possible.

When that water-rich rock gets put under ... melted rock that can fly for miles. Some icy volcanoes produce huge mudslides called lahars when hot rock and hot gas melt ice and snow on their ...

A rare 'lavanado' was spotted swirling over the fiery eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. The wild scene caught on video captured the moment when hot gasses and dangerous lava were spun ...

Video footage captured by Scott Malis during the volcano's 11th episode shows lava spewing out of Kilauea volcano and spinning into the air.

In Iceland, many of the buildings and even swimming pools are heated with geothermal hot water. Iceland has at least 25 active volcanoes and many hot springs and geysers. There are many advantages ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as ...

Two kayakers paddled next to the erupting Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaii and even spotted lava rock smouldering in the water. However, they are not the first people to venture near the volcano when it ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The To-Sua Ocean Trench is a swimming hole in a volcano's crater. People from all over the world travel to the Samoan island of Upolu to swim in the crystal clear ...

Lahars or debris flows: This term describes a hot or cold slurry of water and rock fragments that rushes down a volcano’s slopes like “rivers of concrete,” according to the USGS. These often ...