This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... "has been formerly one vast crater of a now extinct volcano." The lieutenant was right: Yellowstone is a volcano ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes. 2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that ...

The tallest volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna, and the world's most active volcano, Kilauea in Hawaii, erupting again.

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that's always enlightening, often surprising and unfailingly fascinating. This month–the lost women of the Viking Age.

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

it was on the condition that National Geographic not reveal its precise whereabouts, except to say that it was created by Hualalai, the island’s third most historically active volcano ...

National Geographic has named its top 25 destinations ... such as hiking near an active volcano, catching new museum openings ...