Volcanoes

The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010 and dumped roughly 250 million cubic meters of ash across Europe. Airlines grounded 100,000 flights.

Lake Michigan’s shoreline transforms into something alien each winter, sprouting cone-shaped towers that hiss and spit like their molten cousins.

The island of Krakatoa basically deleted itself in 1883, and when it did, the ocean noticed. Hard. We tend to think of tsunamis as earthquake things—tectonic

Hollywood loves a good volcano. The mountain rumbles, cracks appear, and within minutes—boom—lava’s everywhere, swallowing entire cities while heroes

Olympus Mons stretches 21 kilometers into the Martian sky—roughly two and a half times the height of Everest—and yet if you were standing on its slopes, you’

In 1973, residents of Heimaey, Iceland, did something that sounds completely bananas: they sprayed seawater on a lava flow. For five months, they pumped 6.

Dogs started howling three days before Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in 79 AD. Cats vanished from the streets. Oxen refused to pull their carts up the

In 1912, Thomas Jaggar stood on the rim of Kilauea and decided humanity needed a permanent spy operation on one of Earth’s most reliably unhinged volcanoes.

The Indonesian village of Armero vanished in less than an hour on November 13, 1985. More than 23,000 people died when Nevado del Ruiz erupted and sent