Residents are wearing masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that is blanketing several Indonesian villages as ...

Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted twice and sent clouds of searing gas miles into the sky while tons ...

Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted with a column of volcanic materials as high as 11 miles into the ...

The volcano caused €1-billion (roughly $1.48-billion) worth of damage, and several roads remain impassable. Nearly 100 families are still living in cargo containers that have been converted into ...

A church bell tolls as locals order another espresso and settle in for a chat in the palm-shaded village square. A surfer ...

It’s what researchers call restingolite, after the eruption in the La Restinga region of the neighboring island of El Hierro in 2011, when hundreds of pieces of whitish rock were found floating ...

On the island of El Hierro, only unaccompanied minors remain, under the care of the regions. There are currently some 260 of them, housed in a student residence, a former day-care center and other ...

This mightiest volcano of the whole archipelago casts a long shadow over the sea, which is one possible source of the San Borondón legend.

El Hierro doesn’t have the overcrowded, commercialized beaches of its neighbors; instead, people often swim in charcos, natural seaside pools that seem to have been carved by Poseidon himself.

“One is acute, the other is chronic.” The underwater eruption near El Hierro superheated the water by as much as 19 °C, reduced the oxygen level, and rapidly acidified the ocean.