Fountains of lava erupted from the Sundhnúkur volcanic system in southwest Iceland on Jan. 14, 2024. As the world watched on webcams and social media, lava flows cut off roads and bubbled from a new ...

Researchers develop a tool for measuring the viscosity of lava that could increase our understanding of molten rock as well as better improve models of its movement, giving authorities crucial ...

Update Nov. 26, 2025: After 9.2 hours of continuous lava fountaining, Episode 37 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption on Kīlauea ended abruptly at 11:39 p.m. on Tuesday. Dual lava fountains from the ...

A tiny town in Iceland stands on the brink of a lava flow, in new images visible from space. Grindavík has been under continual threat from volcanic eruptions for weeks. The flow originates beneath ...

In a true study in contrast, the course of a red-hot lava flow oozing down a snowy white mountainside has been mapped out in a newly-released NASA satellite image. Running down the slopes of Mount ...

TANAH DATAR, Indonesia — Flash floods and mud slide s in Indonesia’s West Sumatra province killed at least 43 people over the weekend while a search for 15 missing people continued, authorities said ...

Yet another volcanic eruption has begun on the Icelandic Reykjanes peninsula, marking the sixth eruption since December last year. The latest eruption began at around 9:30 p.m. local time on Thursday, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONOLULU (AP) — People were flocking to ...

First responders assisted scientists operating a drone as they guided a man safely through lava flow during evacuations in Puna on Sunday. Lava flows inside the Leilani Estates neighborhood on the Big ...