Often called ”Africa’s Eden,” the Ngorongoro Crater is one of Tanzania’s most spectacular attractions. A colossal collapsed volcano, whose walls enclose a lush, 100-square-mile ecosystem ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows Hamas will pay for not returning Shiri Bibas. The statement came after Israeli ...

But one island country in Africa combines relaxing on the beach with the possibility of climbing a massive active volcano. That would be Cape Verde, which has become a popular destination for ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

"You'll be feeling earthquakes, you'll be seeing volcanoes erupt, but you won't see the ocean intrude in our lifetimes." Africa's Great Rift is one of the few places on Earth being actively ...

A volcano near Alaska’s most populous city may be preparing to erupt, according to experts who have been monitoring the ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

This submerged volcano is over 400m high and its summit is eight metres below the surface. It was formed at the collision point of the African and European tectonic plates and has disappeared ...

Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc — a string of volcanoes in Italy, including the currently active Mount Etna, that sits on a boundary between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.

It was feared that the volcano could create a tsunami, which could reach Portugal and western African countries. Vigorous lava flows and explosive activity took place over a three-month period in ...