Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The orange level alert was issued as footage was released showing ash and smoke spewing from the volcano near the city of Popayan ...

Oliverio Quira often goes to check on his cattle on a plot of land he owns less than a mile from the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. There he sits and watches the billowing ash column rising ...

The orange level alert was issued as footage was released showing ash and smoke spewing from the volcano near the city of Popayan in Colombia.

Four decades on, the gap between well-monitored volcanoes and unmonitored ones still shapes who lives and dies. The new ...

The Coconucos volcanic chain is a mountain ridge dotted with at least 14 volcano craters, including one that is active and erupted in December 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Strengthening Volcano Science." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing. Washington, ...