Over 30,000 people fled the provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following the first volcanic explosion and many more are expected to follow in light of recent fears the ...

Nyiragongo’s beautiful steep cone, encased in its unsettling night glow, towers over the densely populated Kivu region that is home to millions of people. The volcanic edifice itself measures around ...

But could it all have been prevented? Or, put differently, why did Nyiragongo’s explosive eruption catch everyone by surprise? Mismanagement meant there was no alert system in place, in fact, the ...

The volcano erupted last Saturday and killed 31 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles ...

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 ...

A volcano in Africa has erupted and sprayed "fountains" of lava that was creeping towards a city where 250 people died in a disaster almost 20 years ago. Panicked locals suffered flashbacks to that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania, ...

Men cross the front of the still smoking lava rocks from an eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo on May 23, 2021 in Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although no second eruptive ...

Nyiragongo viscosity discussion: how fluid is it really? Nephelinitic pahoehoe from 2016 – 2021 intra caldera wall vent that was active together with the lava lake. While being compositionally alien ...