The Icelandic Met Office has released a map showing the progression of lava flows from the ongoing eruption on the Reykjanes ...

Both believed to be the aftermath of epic eruptions, one lava flow was found simmering near the mighty Sif Mons, a so-called shield volcano that spans nearly 200 miles across and is over a mile tall.

Its many volcanoes are why Iceland is also known as the Land of Fire and Ice. There are two main reasons why Iceland is a ...

Cameras positioned around the Sundhnúkur volcano captured stunning images of the eruption ... The country dispatched at least ...

The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at Sundhnukar on Wednesday night and peaked ...

Ash released from shield volcanoes often builds up around the ... when low viscosity lava develops a hard crust through which lava flows.

The eruption — the 10th on the Reykjanes Peninsula since 2021 — began with little warning. The nearby town of Grindavik and ...

Cameras from outside the town of Grindavik showed lava spewing from a row of craters on the Reykjanes Peninsula on Wednesday.

Native Hawaiian oral traditions record a rich history of the changing volcanic landscape in Hawai‘i. Interweaving cultural ...

Examining familiar place names in the chant, compared with the geographic extent of the flow field mapped by Holcomb, ...

During the 1970s, Robin Holcomb conducted his doctoral field work and research on Kilauea while working at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. His work included mapping a series of lava flows ...