Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Magma is molten rock - rock that is so hot it has ...

Making headlines today, holidaymakers have been stranded at airports in Perth and Indonesia after a severe volcanic eruption ...

Making headlines today, holidaymakers have been stranded at airports in Perth and Indonesia after a severe volcanic eruption ...

Global warming is a global issue and our resilience to its effects should be treated as such, says David Grandorge ...

This composite image shows ... including lava lakes, volcanic eruptions and tectonically formed mountains. But it is not home to large amounts of water. Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, in contrast ...

NASA images provide insights into the sun, moon, planets, and stars. Recent highlights include solar flares, Jupiter’s features, a unique Earth photo, and the Witch Hat nebula, showcasing the dynamic ...

Whenever a child is asked to sketch an idyllic natural scene on paper, what emerges often contains two majestic mountains towering over the other elements in the artwork. Mountains, the natural ...

A composite of each month’s Full Moon in ... Very occasionally, atmospheric conditions such as recent volcanic eruptions might lend the Moon a slightly blueish tint, but this hue isn’t tied ...

Friction between these plates may also cause earthquakes to occur. The magma then rises in great plumes to form steep sided composite volcanoes, which can have very explosive eruptions. Our last type ...

Ruapehu and Tongariro, which date back before the last ice age, are two of the most active composite volcanoes in the world, with Ruapehu last erupting in 1996. Ngauruhoe – geologically considered a ...

This image, provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a composite of several satellite passes over ... And what about other types of natural disasters like storms or volcanic eruptions? If a ...