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Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...
The area around Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines was still under evacuation orders from an eruption in December​.
Tourists and residents have been evacuated as a volcano erupted in south-west Iceland, threatening a town and popular ...
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...
A volcano erupted to the south of Iceland's capital on Tuesday, spewing lava and smoke in a fiery display of orange and red ...
A flurry of seismic activity that caused 160 quakes in just two hours at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field in central Chile ...
A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.
Huge plumes of ash have been sent 2.5 miles into the sky after a volcano erupted in the central Philippines. Mount Kanlaon is one of 24 active volcanoes in the south-east Asian nation. It ...
A divergent fault happens when two tectonic plates pull apart with pressure downward. It allows magma from the mantle to rise up to the surface and flow as lava. This is how volcanoes form!
Earth boasts more than 1,500 potentially active volcanoes, with 50 to 70 erupting every year. But why is our planet so volcanically active? The answer lies in plate tectonics, the movement of divided ...