In my reading, I often come across an epigraph from the Roman poet, essayist, satirist, and critic Horace – always wise, appropriate, and slightly skeptical because Horace looked at life realistically ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Since Kilauea's hawt eruption action moved ...

The recent eruption of the Tongan submarine volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai culminated in an explosive blast on Jan. 15 that sent shock waves around the world. Punching a hole through the ...

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‘Volcanoes get a bad press,” Clive Oppenheimer writes at the beginning of “Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes.” However “dramatic and traumatic as their outbursts can be, ...

“Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond” by Robin George Andrews. Norton. 312 pp. $27.95. Review provided by The Washington Post. Volcanoes need a new agent. Whenever an ...

A car chugs across a snowy landscape. Two red-capped figures emerge, pick their way across a ridge of black rock, and stop when they reach its crest: there, in front of them, lava boils out from a ...