Devotees of gathered on Monday at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach to honor African sea goddess Yemanja in a traditional New ...

This story was updated on Dec. 24, 2025. A year ago on Dec. 23, 2024, one of the world’s most active volcanoes awoke.   That ...

In a rare and captivating moment, Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been captured smiling amid its usual fiery eruptions.

University of Birmingham volcanologist Mike Cassidy argued that the biggest danger could come, not from Yellowstone and Mount Etna, but from hidden volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma—and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure dropped ...

UK-based game studio Blueprint Gaming has rolled out Lava Lock Jackpot King, a slot title leading with a new Volcano feature and a host of updated modifiers. Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, takes ...

The Taftan volcano in Iran frequently expels gas, but has not erupted. A volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years could be gearing up for a massive explosion, according to new ...

Located on the island of Sicily, in Italy, Mount Etna is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Documentation of its many eruptions stretches back as far as 2,700 years ago, with the most recent ...

A volcano near the Iran-Pakistan border rose multiple inches between 2023 and 2024 — raising alarm that it may be nearing an eruption for the first time in more than 700,000 years. The Taftan volcano ...

Jenny “Jeta” Tang is a Hawaiʻi-based creative technologist and artist in Honolulu, working in sculpture, installation and performance art. She is currently studying studio art and philosophy at the ...

GONE FISHIN' — If your cat is anything like mine, it probably wouldn't be very resourceful if faced with getting its own meals. My cat, a 9-pound tortoiseshell, is extremely reliant on her electronic ...