Volcanoes

The Toba supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago in what is now Indonesia, spewing roughly 2,800 cubic kilometers of ash and rock into the atmosphere. That’

In 2019, archaeologists scrambling up the flanks of Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano—an active crater that’s been spewing sulfuric fumes since before

The Taupo Volcanic Zone stretches like a geological scar across New Zealand’s North Island, 350 kilometers of restless earth that’

In 1952, a British survey ship called the Challenger II was mapping the ocean floor near Tonga when its sonar equipment went haywire. Depths fluctuated wildly.

You’d think someone who spends their career studying mountains that occasionally explode would have a death wish. But volcanologists—the scientists

Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 CE, sure. But thousands of years before that catastrophe, ancient humans were already building entire belief systems

The Thurston Lava Tube stretches 500 feet through Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, and walking through it feels like stepping into the intestines of the planet.

Paricutín didn’t exist until February 20, 1943. Then a Mexican farmer named Dionisio Pulido noticed his cornfield was, well, cracking open and belching smoke.

Beneath your feet right now, roughly 4,000 miles down, Earth’s core is sitting at a toasty 10,800 degrees Fahrenheit—hotter than the surface of the sun.

Mount Toba nearly deleted us from the planetary roster about 74,000 years ago. The supervolcano in Indonesia detonated with such ferocity that it punched