"The lava turned them into stones. You can't imagine. You never see them again. No trace." Today his land is a pile of jagged volcanic rocks. "We know the mountain will erupt again. Lava will come.

“We had a couple hours to kill,” Peter told me, “so we started surveying, and we found a side passage that turned ... into three tunnels, which will narrow as cavers go deeper. Navigating ...

Once the lava cools, the chaos caused to parts of the island may take some time to undo. Bulldozers will be required to clear roads that have been deluged with lava that turns into rock.

One of the world's most active volcanoes spewed lava into the air for a second straight day on Tuesday. The eruption of ...

Molten rock began shooting from the volcano before dawn on Monday when fissures opened in the caldera floor and propelled lava 295 feet (90 meters) into the air. The red liquid formed tall ...

Volcanoes can bring molten rock to the surface, which we call lava. When the molten rock cools, it turns into a solid and igneous rock forms. Igneous rocks contain randomly arranged interlocking ...