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 ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National ... are volcanoes, and then there are supervolcanoes. The latter have no agreed-on definition—the term was popularized in a BBC ...

The world’s loneliest volcano may hold something truly rare. We went to find it.

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 ...

On a remote island in the Pacific, Will Smith descends into the heart of an active volcano to investigate sounds beyond human hearing. Will discovers that everything on our planet creates its own ...

This story appears in the September 2007 issue of National ... Geographic magazine. When the first thunderous boom echoed across the plain of Campania, quickly followed by a blistering hail of ...

Four types of volcanoes—shield, composite, cinder cone, and plug dome—can be found in Lassen Volcanic National Park, where they literally bubble and steam.

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded ...

Despite being more than 600 kilometres from the nearest volcano, the river averaged 86C. According to National Geographic, that is hot enough “to cook a small animal in seconds.” What makes it ...