Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, or Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La in Persian, is part of a volcanic arc that formed tens of millions of years ago and is made of a tough-to-penetrate rock ...

It’s been a while since my last post in VolcanoCafe. I have been working on multiple ideas and gathering data, but not been able to finish anything. Today, I bring something exciting.

In a recent study, researchers dated a historic lahar called the Electron Mudflow to the summer of 1507, establishing a way ...

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded three distinct, short-lived explosions in less than five minutes at Taal Volcano. The eruption sent a column of ash and ...

The Indian Navy has put a ₹1 lakh crore ask on the table — 16 warships across three completely different classes: a big ...

The Philippine National Police has ordered all PNP units deployed near the restive Mt. Kanlaon to implement strict health ...

Kanloan Volcano on Negros Island emits a plume of ash during a moderate explosive eruption on Thursday, July 9, 2026, as seen from neighboring Iloilo City. — Photo from Iloilo City Disaster Risk ...

A lava lake is one of the rarest sights in volcanology. Instead of lava spilling away from a vent and cooling across the landscape, molten rock remains pooled inside a crater or volcanic depression, ...

Whoopi Goldberg experienced a Hot Topic of another kind when she missed The View‘s first new episode since its Fourth of July holiday hiatus due to — yes, really — an active volcano. The 70-year-old ...

A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on slopes too gentle to notice, and its summit pokes above most of the planet ...

The ocean wasn't the only thing making waves in the Philippines this week. On July 30th, Taal Volcano, one of the country's most active volcanoes, produced a dramatic phreatomagmatic eruption that ...

Episode 50 lava fountaining in Kilauea’s Halemaumau crater “ended abruptly ” at 5:10 p.m. today after seven hours, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists said. “Tephra that was carried high into the ...