This event has sparked renewed interest in an 1816 eruption of Mount Tambora, another Indonesian volcano. It's notable because its ash made its way to Canada, effectively stealing the summer.

We are becoming the City That Never Sleets. Pacific island paradise Hawaii has officially seen more snow than New York City so far this fall despite the ferocious winter storm that pummeled the ...

A NASA satellite image of Alaska's Iliamna Volcano appearing "ready to rumble" days before seismic activity was reported days later. NASA Earth Observatory The snow-covered stratovolcano is found ...

The first image (see above) shows the most extensive snow coverage on Mauna Loa, a 13,681-foot-tall (4,170 meters) volcano near the center of the Big Island. The second image (below) shows a ...

Instead, this patch is the dried-up bed of a small lake, now covered in salt. The volcano itself stands at 3,415 meters (11,204 feet), towering above the vast Sahara.

A tongue of lava spilling down the side of Mount Etna glows orange on the snow-covered volcano. This image, taken on 12 February by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites, shows a river of ...