PUNA, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - Fissure no. 8 has taken on a look of its own, in fact some might even say it looks like its own volcano now. The fissure's lava fountains have surrounded itself with ...

Black cinder, at top, is highly porous small hard bits expelled by fountaining lava without much exposure to oxygen before cooling. Hawaii’s commercial supply of the material is nearing depletion ...

Smoke billows from the mouth of Mt. Shasta like a thunderous cough. Within moments, clear skies turn gray, and the sun vanishes behind thick, shifting layers of volcanic gas and ash. Visitors snap ...

A powerful eruption of Mount Semeru in Indonesia has forced evacuations and sent a 54,000-foot ash cloud into the sky. The ...

HONOLULU — The eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island continues to ease, scientists said Sunday, reinforcing an earlier pronouncement that the mountain's first flare-up in nearly 40 ...

Lassen Peak, shown here, is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia to northern California. This vast range is ...

Note: This is the fourth in a series of six Guest Opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument Centennial. While southern Idaho’s vast Snake River Plain is lauded and renowned ...

Lassen Volcanic National Park is full of stunning landscapes and unique volcanic features that make it a great spot for ...

Kilauea Iki hikers cross the crater floor at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Photo Credit: Photo courtesy NPS The month of January is Volcano Awareness Month at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and the ...

Volcanoes are one of Earth’s most powerful and mesmerizing geological features. Simultaneously beautiful and terrifying, they can hibernate for years before rumbling back to life spewing fiery ash ...

Through all of those changes, Amboy Crater - the large black cinder cone volcano that looms over Amboy and Route 66 - has stayed the same. Of course, in terms of geologic time, the volcanic stalwart ...