Volcanoes

Deep beneath your feet, carbon atoms are getting squeezed like grapes in a hydraulic press. And the press? That’s a volcano doing what volcanoes

The Hawaiian silversword grows nowhere else on Earth. Just Hawaii. One plant, one archipelago, because volcanoes don’t just make islands—they make

Venus looks like Earth’s evil twin that spent too much time in a pressure cooker. Same size, roughly same mass, but somewhere along the way it turned

Every morning, Mexico City wakes up to the sight of a mountain that refuses to behave. Popocatépetl—”Smoking Mountain” in Náhuatl—has been

Deep beneath your feet right now, there’s a plumbing system that makes Manhattan’s steam tunnels look like garden hoses. We’

Mount Kilauea has been erupting almost continuously since 1983, spewing out roughly 60 million cubic meters of lava every year. That’

Jupiter’s moon Io doesn’t do anything halfway. While Earth’s volcanoes politely erupt basalt—the geological equivalent of plain toast—Io’

The lava lake at Nyiragongo doesn’t care about your schedule. It sits there, 11,380 feet up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, churning like the world’

Eyjafjallajökull. Try saying that three times fast while your airline is canceling your flight to Barcelona. In April 2010, this Icelandic volcano with

The year is 1943, and a Mexican farmer watches his cornfield split open like overripe fruit. Within a week, Paricutín volcano rises 150 meters into the