Active volcanic craters are something that people generally don't want to get very close to – even if they're dedicated volcanologists. With that in mind, German scientists recently had success using ...

View of the valley from one of Santiaguito's plateaus. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Kayleigh Kulp for The Washington Post. Santiaguito roared throughout the night – a thunderous pop and a rumble followed by ...

Due to high risk for researchers, the imaging of active volcanoes has so far been a great challenge in volcanology. Scientists used a drone for a series of repeated survey flights with optical and ...

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The eruption — which CONRED said affected 1.7 million people — caused smoke clouds that blanketed the air, according to CNN, with much of the ash covering nearby neighborhoods and their residents, but ...

Getting to the Mirador lookout point, where this photo was taken, was easy compared with the next leg of the author's journey: the descent down the Santa Maria volcano. The author, her husband and ...