A massive volcanic eruption may have helped to set in motion the development of one of South America’s earliest ... role in the histories of human-volcano interactions in the region,” write ...

The 30m resolution survey showed for the first time that the South Sandwich Islands are the emergent tips of huge volcanoes that rise from seafloor about 3 kilometres deep. Scattered among these ...

On 13 November 1985, a dormant volcano erupted in Colombia, South America. It engulfed the town of Armero and killed more than 20,000 of its inhabitants. This is the story of the Armero tragedy ...

If you haven't yet checked off Alaska and Hawaii on your quest to visit all 50 states, Holland America Line has the perfect ...

The highway connecting the south and center of the country was also closed for almost 12 hours due to the eruption of the most active volcano in Central America, but vehicle traffic resumed in the ...

Chile has raised the alert level for the Villarrica volcano from yellow to amber, which means that it could erupt imminently. Footage released by the Chilean army shows the crater of the volcano ...