Volcanoes

Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted in January 2002, and lava streams moved at 60 kilometers per hour through Goma.

Subglacial volcanoes are exactly what they sound like—volcanoes buried under ice sheets. Antarctica has at least 138 of them. Probably more that we havent

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens decided to redecorate the Pacific Northwest with roughly 540 million tons of ash, flattening 230 square miles of forest

Mount Etna erupts so frequently that Sicilians basically treat it like weather. “Oh, Etna’s acting up again”—the same tone you’

Imagine trying to solve a murder mystery where the crime scene is buried under three miles of rock and the witnesses have been dead for 200 million years. That’

The telescope pointed at a blob of light 200 trillion miles away isn’t supposed to detect volcanoes. It’s supposed to capture starlight, maybe

Around 1600 BCE, the island of Thera—what we now call Santorini—basically decided to delete itself from the Mediterranean map. The Minoan civilization

Mount Nyiragongo sits above the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo like a loaded weapon nobody can unload. Two million people live in its shadow.

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens dumped ash across eleven states, turning highways into skating rinks made of pulverized rock. Drivers who kept going—because

Three million people live within striking distance of Vesuvius. That’s roughly the population of Chicago, except they’re all camped around