Lava flows are masses of magma that pour onto the Earth's surface during an eruption; they include both moving lava and the resulting solidified deposits of black rock. Lava flows come in a great ...

The activity at Redoubt has captivated a lot of us, but in the grand scheme of things, its eruption are more likely to caused inconvenience and property damage rather than dramatically loss of life ...

We haven't talked too much about volcanic activity in Africa lately, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening. I had a couple galleries of images come through my inbox in the last couple weeks that ...

The production of a documentary film is never simple, but I seem inevitably drawn to subjects that pose particularly difficult challenges. On past projects, I have ventured with scientists and camera ...

In May 2021, Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, burst to life without warning. Lava erupted from fissures and flowed down the mountain toward cities below, leaving ...

Nyiragongo as seen from Goma, Congo in 2002. A trove of 1.1 million records left accessible on the open web shows how much sensitive information can be created—and made vulnerable—during the adoption ...

Image by Carsten Peter Image: Futurism M.A. This may look like a monster walking out of the bowels of hell, but it is actually a member of a research team walking across a cooled lava floor which has ...

Few things rattle residents of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. For decades they’ve lived with wars and rebellions spilling out from their jungles—all while keeping a wary eye on the mountain ...