Volcanoes
Look up at the Moon on a clear night and you’ll see dark patches smeared across its face like spilled ink on parchment. For centuries, astronomers
Gunung Agung sits there like some kind of divine middle finger pointed at the sky, 3,031 meters of volcanic rock that the Balinese consider the literal
Your gutters are probably clogged with leaves right now. Annoying, sure—but what if they were clogged with something that could corrode metal, scratch
Mount Etna erupted 50 times in 2021 alone. That’s roughly once a week for those keeping track at home, which means the flowers growing on its slopes
Miranda, Uranus’s smallest major moon, looks like someone took a planetary blender to it and hit “pulse” a few times. The surface is
Klyuchevskaya Sopka doesn’t care about your schedule. At 15,584 feet, this behemoth on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula erupts roughly every year
The Philippines volcano Mayon killed more than 1,200 people in 1814. Nobody saw it coming—or rather, nobody knew what they were seeing. Fast forward to
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens detonated with the force of 27,000 Hiroshima bombs, flattening 230 square miles of forest in roughly nine seconds.
Pompeii gets all the press, but Mount Vesuvius wasn’t even trying that hard in 79 AD. The real show-stoppers—the volcanic eruptions that turned the
Every year, thousands of tourists in flip-flops trudge up a cinder slope on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, to peer into what amounts to Earth’