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The latest news and updates on active volcanos around the world. A volcano is an opening in a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows lava, ash, rock and gases to escape. On average, there are about 50-70 volcano eruptions every year.

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Play Video Volcanic activity at Mount Etna volcano in Sicily, Italy

Italy's warning to 'wild' tourists skiing on erupting Mount Etna volcano

Channel: World World February 22, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton
Play Video CATANIA, ITALY - FEBRUARY 14: A view of Mount Etna seen from Adrano, Catania, which is producing a new eruption on 14 February 2025. A lava flow emerged from a fissure at about 3,000 metres on the southern rim of the Bocca Nuova crater. It descended along the southwest flank of the volcano, reaching an altitude of about 1,950 metres above sea level near the Galvarina shelter. The flow came within 200 metres of the Altomontana slope, where a large crowd of tourists had gathered to witness the spectacular event. (Photo by Salvatore Allegra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Italy's warning to 'wild' tourists swarming Mount Etna after latest eruption

Channel: World World February 22, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. Galileo. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Volcano on ‘tormented’ moon has biggest ever 80,000,000,000,000-watt eruption

Channel: Tech Tech February 4, 2025 By Jen Mills
Schmidt Ocean Institute Axial Seamount vent 14310167 Mile-wide 30 million-year-old undersea volcano is set to blow this year off the West Coast

Map shows location of huge underwater volcano near coast set to erupt this year

Channel: World World January 27, 2025 By Sam Courtney-Guy
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Could Yellowstone supervolcano be about to erupt again?

Channel: Tech Tech January 4, 2025 By Danny Rigg
An aerial image of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, US, with smoke rising from the crater.

Toddler almost falls into erupting volcano after running off from family on holiday

Channel: US US December 30, 2024 By Noora Mykkanen
Rock dating back 4,200,000,000 years proves volcanoes erupted on moon's far side

Rock from 4,200,000,000 years ago confirms something we wondered about the moon

Channel: Tech Tech November 17, 2024 By Sam Corbishley

Met Office continues to monitor toxic gas cloud after it sweeps UK

Channel: UK UK August 26, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
A Windy map showing the route of the gas

Warning over toxic cloud sweeping across UK

Channel: UK UK August 25, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Eruption of Shiveluch volcano

Volcano erupts after 7.0-magnitude earthquake, triggering 'code-red' for planes

Channel: World World August 19, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Mount Etna erupting

Red alert issued after Mount Etna volcano eruption

Channel: World World July 11, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva
Incredible scenes show Europe???s tallest active volcano erupting on Thursday (4 July). The pictures of Mount Etna were captured in Sicily by photographer and guide Emilio Messina. Mount Etna is the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps with a current height of 3,357.

Stunning pictures show Mount Etna explosion in detail as flights disrupted

Channel: Tech Tech July 5, 2024 By Dean Murray
Mauna Loa K?lauea HAWAII VOLANO LOCATOR MAP

Map shows Hawaiian volcanoes as region erupts for first time since 1974

Channel: US US June 4, 2024 By Jessica Kwong
Play Video A volcano spews lava in Grindavik, Iceland, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. A volcano in southwestern Iceland is erupting, spewing red streams of lava in its latest display of nature's power. A series of earthquakes before the eruption Wednesday triggered the evacuation of the popular Blue Lagoon geothermal spa. The eruption began in the early afternoon north of Grindavik, a coastal town of 3,800 people that was also evacuated. (AP Photo/Marco di Marco)

Map shows where Iceland volcano is erupting for the fifth time in six months

Channel: World World May 30, 2024 By Katie Boyden

Volcano erupts as purple lightning flashes around its crater

Channel: World World May 19, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
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Out-of-this-world moment lightning strikes erupting volcano

Channel: Tech Tech May 14, 2024 By Hiyah Zaidi
WEST SUMATRA, INDONESIA - MAY 12: An aerial view residents survey the devastated village, witnessing the aftermath of Mount Marapi's cold lava eruption, which ravaged homes, mosque, rice fields, vehicle and severed road access in Lima Kaum village, located within the Tanah Datar District of West Sumatra, Indonesia, on May 12, 2024. At least 27 people, including several children, were killed and four others were missing after flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano hit Tanah Datar and Agam Districts, rescue officials said Sunday. (Photo by Adi Prima/Anadolu via Getty Images)

More than 40 dead after cold lava sweeps across village

Channel: World World May 13, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
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Are we heading for a year with no summer? It's happened before

Channel: Tech Tech April 26, 2024 By Katherine Fidler

Woman dies falling 250ft into volcano while her husband was taking a photo

Channel: World World April 22, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
A CGI visual of the new Woven City being built in Japan.

Inside the £8,000,000,000 futuristic city built at the foot of an active volcano

Channel: World World April 20, 2024 By Will Neal

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