This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes. Only the U.S. (168) and Russia (144) have more. Essential packing list: We landed ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa ...

Andres Ruzo: Hunt for Sleeping Giants is a multi-media National Geographic Live presentation on Sunday and Monday at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. It will take audiences on a globe-trotting adventure ...

From witnessing active volcanoes and getting involved in community tourism to exploring stone cities that have stood for ...

This story appears in the August 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... "has been formerly one vast crater of a now extinct volcano." The lieutenant was right: Yellowstone is a volcano ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

it was on the condition that National Geographic not reveal its precise whereabouts, except to say that it was created by Hualalai, the island’s third most historically active volcano ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes. 2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that ...

Four types of volcanoes—shield, composite, cinder cone, and plug dome—can be found in Lassen Volcanic National Park, where they literally bubble and steam.

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was five days before Christmas, and in the hut on the north flank of Eyjafjallajökull, the volcano that grounded ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three billion cubic yards of mud, ash, and melting snow ...