In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure ...

Scientists in the United States are preparing to drill into one of the country’s most closely watched volcanoes in a bid to unlock a new class of ultra-deep geothermal power. The project aims to tap ...

Gustavo Bejar-Lopez has been interested in volcanoes since he was a child. Now, the Michigan Technological University Ph.D. student is a budding volcanologist mentoring young geologists from his ...

When you picture a volcano, what do you see? I personally imagine a mountain sticking up into the sky. At the top of that mountain, I see a crater with a fiery hot lake boiling and roiling in it, or ...