A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ...

The tallest volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna, and the world's most active volcano, Kilauea in Hawaii, erupting again.

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.

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This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three billion cubic yards of mud, ash, and melting snow ...

Pantelleria, a volcanic island between Sicily and Tunisia, is quite small, but it produces great wine. Geographically closer to Tunisia, it has a rich history that has seen the passage of ...

"Three out of every four live volcanoes on Earth are here,” says National Geographic. “Almost all earthquakes happen here, too." The Ring of Fire is the result of plate tectonics − giant ...