This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa ...

Magma is the name given to molten material inside the earth (volcano) whereas lava is the name given to molten material which is often ejected from a volcano and then cools and solidifies.

At school I had a real interest in Science, Geography and also Maths. I apply the skills and knowledge that I learnt in school into the world of volcanoes. Currently I’m using drones to map ...

Minecraft tweeted a picture of a map referencing the Geography Terms poster, and it includes a few biomes not featured ...

New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island, a continuously active volcano, was recently photographed by Landsat 9 during a phase of ...

This unique volcano is surrounded by a biodiverse national park that dominates the geography of Maui, spanning over 75% of the island's mass and encompassing over 33,000 acres. Though the park is ...

The Kingdom of Tonga doesn’t often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15 has spread shock waves, quite literally, around half the world.

A new study reveals that Hawai‘i’s two most active volcanoes, Kīlauea and Maunaloa, share the same source of magma deep within the Earth. For years, scientists believed these volcanoes had completely ...