"Rootless cones form when lava flows over wet or icy ground, causing it to boil and explode," said Dundas. "The region around ...

The park's fire-and-ice combination of active volcanoes and glaciers easily won it the natural-her­itage status of sites such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Everglades. But the United Nations ...

One of the world's most active volcanoes erupted over 1,000 times in the first 19 days of 2025, producing ash clouds over two miles high.

Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to ...

As the ice melts, the pressure in the magma chambers eases and the compressed magma can expand, leading to eruptions.

The Vatnajökull ice cap is the largest glacier in Europe and covers 8 percent of Iceland. It's also home to the Jökulsárlón ...

Geldingadalir Volcano: Close to the Blue Lagoon ... this beach near Jökulsárlón is a truly unique travel experience. Fragments of ice break off the nearby glacier and drift down to the beach.

Along with our stretch of very cold weather here in Central New York recently, a unique sight has developed along the Lake ...

These volcanoes are not dormant—they are active ... creating a precarious balance between fire and ice. This delicate equilibrium is being dismantled by climate change. A recent study published ...

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent ...

It may surprise you, but yes, ice volcanoes do exist! While cryovolcanoes that erupt gases, water, ammonia, and hydrocarbons only exist on icy planets and moons far away in our solar system ...