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  1. Volcano facts and types of volcanoes - Live Science

    Feb 25, 2025 · Discover interesting facts about volcanoes, including why and where they form and history's deadliest eruption.

  2. Volcanoes - News and Scientific Articles on Live Science | Live …

    Dec 10, 2025 · There are different types of volcanoes, including stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes and cinder cones, and different types of lava and other volcanic flows. Volcanoes can be …

  3. What is the Pacific Ring of Fire? - Live Science

    Jul 28, 2025 · The Pacific Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes known for explosive eruptions and intense earthquakes.

  4. How Volcanoes Work - Live Science

    Nov 1, 2004 · The volcanoes that tower above the surrounding mountains from California to Washington state are caused by subduction zones. This same process builds mountains and …

  5. Watch mesmerizing 1,000-foot-tall lava fountains: Kilauea volcano ...

    May 28, 2025 · The USGS has announced that Kilauea volcano is ejecting fountains of lava in a manner not seen since the Pu'u'ō'ō eruption in the 1980s. But while the lava is mesmerizing, …

  6. The moon might still have active volcanoes, China's Chang'e 5 …

    Sep 14, 2024 · China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

  7. Dormant volcano erupts in Russia for first time in around 500 years ...

    Aug 4, 2025 · Krasheninnikov volcano has erupted on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. This is the second volcano to erupt in the region following the magnitude 8.8 megaquake on July 30.

  8. 50 Amazing Volcano Facts - Live Science

    Oct 2, 2012 · Volcanoes erupt in many spectacular ways and have wreaked havoc on civilizations past and present; here are fascinating facts on some of the biggest and most interesting …

  9. 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath …

    Jul 29, 2025 · Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of …

  10. The closer a volcano is to erupting, the greener the trees around it ...

    May 30, 2025 · Scientists have found a way to monitor volcanic carbon dioxide levels — one of the first signs a volcano might be about to blow — that doesn't involve trekking up a mountain.