Bolts of volcanic lightning have been captured coming out of Guatemala's Fuego volcano in extremely rare footage. The video was shot by mountain tour guide Chino Aventuras, who was leading a group of ...

Sakurajima Peninsula seen from a ferry boat from Kagoshima City, Japan. Japan is a country of volcanoes, and Sakurajima is one of its most infamous. Its notoriety stems from its poor behavior in 1914, ...

One of the leading killers during explosive volcanic eruptions is a family of superheated gas, ash, and debris known as pyroclastic density currents. These tumbling, turbulent paroxysms rush downslope ...

Jeffrey Johnson, associate professor of geosciences at Boise State University, contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Japan is a country of volcanoes, and ...