Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, began erupting on Tuesday in an impressive lava flow emerging ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

days before the volcano erupted. A large fissure has opened up nearby, at the Sundhnukagígar crater north of Grindavik, with lava flowing both east and west. One estimate by the country's Met ...

Hundreds of visitors who traveled to watch a once-in-800-year volcano eruption near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik had to evacuate the area after steam and lava started spurting from a new fissure.

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent increase in seismic activity, could it be about to erupt again?

The fissure measures about 1,000 feet long, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said new fissures, ground deformation and abundant volcanic gases indicate ...

So, that will open a fissure in the caldera. But then the magma can intrude for miles and miles as that crack just keeps ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A small new fissure eruption in an ice-free area of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano system prompted authorities to raise their warning of the risk of ash to aviation to the ...

Enormous plumes of smoke and spews of lava have since been flowing from a nearly 4 kilometre (2.5 miles) long volcanic fissure. Residents in the region have been bracing themselves for the ...

An Icelandic peninsula experienced its fourth eruption since December with lava from a new volcanic fissure steadily advancing, though the eruption’s intensity had decreased, authorities said.

For the time being, the well-known Blue Lagoon thermal spa has closed its doors due to the great risk that a volcanic fissure could open up in the same area. (Photo by Raul Moreno/SOPA Images ...