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A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

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One of the world's most active volcanoes, Kilauea started spewing lava ... Since December, each episode has lasted from hours to several days, and periods of inactivity in between have lasted ...

Recent research led by Cornell University has revealed that significant magma bodies exist beneath active and dormant ...

Analysis - The city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was taken over by the M23 rebel group in January 2025. This was a tragic escalation of a decades-long conflict that's led to mass ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ...