Mayors in the area have issued ordnances forbidding people from approaching the lava too closely. Read more at ...

A fiery force beneath the ocean is reshaping Tonga’s Home Reef, growing an island through eruptions over the past few years.

The island was formed by the eruption of Home Reef – a submarine volcano found in the Central Tonga Islands between Lateiki ...

Two broad categories of eruption, effusive and explosive, can describe the habits of a particular volcano. Effusive eruptions involve the outpouring of basaltic lava that flows quite easily and ...

we assume that future eruptions will be similar . . . effusive eruptions, something like the lava flows on Kilauea today, and slightly vigorous lava fountains and fissures that could produce ...

Ill-prepared trekkers swarm Mt Etna for high-altitude selfies Authorities near Sicily's Mount Etna are bracing to control an influx of visitors this weekend, attracted by a two-week flow of lava ...

Authorities near Sicily's Mount Etna are bracing for an influx of visitors this weekend, attracted by a two-week flow of lava ...

Etna's discharge of lava, which began flowing on February 8, is due to a so-called "effusive eruption", which differs from a more violent, explosive eruption. "All eruptions are spectacular ...