I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

Witness the awe-inspiring power of nature up close by visiting some of the world's most dangerous volcanoes on hikes.

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

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.

A group of scientists has a proposal for exactly that—extinct volcanoes. ‘Rare earth metals’ is a phrase you’re probably going to hear more and more in the coming years. They’re a class ...

Natural wonders become disasters. The same is true for plenty of erupting volcanoes, whether they’re exploding with cataclysmic force or oozing incandescent molten rock. But not always.

Unexplored iron-rich magma could help power current and future technologies Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent Within the deposits of extinct volcanoes around the world, a mysterious magma may ...

A phreatic eruption was reported over Taal Volcano in Batangas on Sunday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) on Monday. In its bulletin, PHIVOLCS said the ...

As scientists in the northwest work to increase seismic monitoring in the region, they’re now shifting focus to areas beyond metro populations, adding more seismometers to volcanoes and planning ...