When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sunset Crater, located in north-central Arizona, is the youngest volcano found on the ...

An animation of a tiny volcano trying to impress its larger peers with an eruption seems like a flight of fancy, but it’s really a hidden lesson in volcano morphology. The difference parallels the ...

CERRO NEGRO, Nicaragua – Peering down from atop the Cerro Negro volcano, it’s easy to see how a daredevil on a bicycle earned a land speed record gliding down its cinder cone slope. The drop is a ...

Klyuchevskaya Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere. A caldera is the circular depression in the center of a volcano's summit that forms ...

A plume of cinder and volcanic ash trail behind a man on a toboggan descending Cerro Negro. It's called 'volcano boarding' and you'd better be brave to do it. Tim Johnson/MCT CERRO NEGRO, Nicaragua — ...