Over the past half century, Japan has been hit by many volcanic eruptions, but scientifically those were only considered to ...

Mount Fuji hasn't erupted since 1707. But for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day, Japanese officials have released computer- and AI-generated videos showing a simulation of a potential violent ...

I was 14 years old when my family and I took a trip to Japan--my first time out of the country. The highlight of those two weeks wasn't my daily ice-cold bottle of fizzy C.C. Lemon. It was our hike up ...

Japan’s iconic peak has been secretly doing something surprising, and scientists have just figured out why. When the ground around a volcano starts to bulge, it sets off alarm bells. Known as ground ...

Volcano hikes offer some of the world’s most dramatic trekking landscapes — from sacred peaks to smoking craters. These seven routes range from beginner-friendly climbs to high-altitude adventures.

Hundreds of small earthquakes have been reported near a volcano in southeast Alaska believed to have been dormant for at least 800 years. The cause of the quakes under Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano near ...

“To me, volcanoes are the most tangible phenomena showing that our planet is alive,” says volcanologist Arianna Soldati, a National Geographic explorer. Worldwide, there are about 1,500 active ...

When there are signs of movement upwards in the ground around a live volcano, one of the first things done by scientists would normally be to pay close attention to the development of the situation.