Explosive activity has picked up in recent days at Bougainville’s Mt Bagana volcano. Papua New Guinea’s Rabaul Volcanological Observatory declared a Stage 1 Alert for Bagana amid its most notable ...

However, Saunders said there was little pumice being produced by the volcano now as its activity has abated in the past week or two, and that pumice rafts around Manus Island had ...

Phivolcs footage shows powerful ash-and-steam column as monitoring continues Steam and ash rise from the main crater of Taal Volcano during a phreatomagmatic eruption in Batangas province, south of ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook the sea off Papua New Guinea’s New Britain region, rattling communities along the coast east of Kokopo and reviving long-standing concerns about seismic risk in one of ...

Terrified tourists were seen scrambling for cover as they were pelted with lava from an exploding volcano in Guatemala. Hikers tried to avoid being struck by chunks of burning rocks after Volcán de ...

Papua New Guineans are concerned about access to food and fresh water after volcanic rock inundated the sea around their islands. An undersea volcano in the Bismark Sea has caused pumice rock to cover ...

Japan built its Pacific defense around fortified island bases meant to force the United States into costly frontal assaults. The American answer was island hopping: bypass the strongest positions, ...

A volcano is erupting under the ocean in the Bismarck Sea, prompting warnings of possible tsunamis from authorities as ash and smoke billow into the sky. Papua New Guinea authorities have warned of ...

The last eruption of Greece’s Methana volcano was around 250 B.C.E. Ever since that event, which was recorded by the Greek historian Strabo, the mountain has lurked silently, just across the Saronic ...

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted again on Thursday, marking the 45th episode of its kind over the last year and a half. Lava began to burst from the volcano in the early morning, around 1:30 a.m.

As MacArthur’s unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New ...