Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Gemechu Bedassa Teferi, a researcher who studies the volcanoes of the Main Ethiopian Rift ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and ...

Cape Verde’s Fogo Island is a breathtaking world where life thrives inside an active volcano. Rising nearly 9,300 ft, Fogo’s ...

This theory contradicts most other models that suggest that humanity’s main migration out of Africa took place along ... the hyper-explosion of the Toba volcano,” said Ludovic Slimak ...

A Travel + Leisure A-List advisor dishes on how to go beyond wildlife spotting in East Africa. Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous ...

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; it's ...

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo--A river of molten rock continued to pour from a volcano in Congo on Friday, a day after it erupted, killing 45, swallowing buildings and forcing hundreds of ...

A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing thousands. This geologically active zone sits within the Great Rift Valley, a fault ...

MORONI, Comoros (Reuters) -- Inhabitants of Grande Comore, the main island of the Comoros group, were warned at the weekend that their island's volcano could soon erupt. In messages read on state ...

What’s next? Lava is erupting from several volcanoes, including one in Hawaii. Nearly 50 volcanic eruptions have been recorded this year, and more are expected. The Axial Seamount, an underwater ...