lava flowed down through an existing valley and out to sea where Porto Moniz is today, cooling and hardening into the volcanic rock that now forms the walls of the pools. Ocean water flows over ...

The lava lake at Nyiragongo is particularly interesting because stratovolcanoes do not normally support these features. At ...

A false-colour image from a satellite has shown the intense heat coming from a pair of lava lakes that emerged on ...

The lava lake at Nyiragongo is particularly interesting because stratovolcanoes do not normally support these features. At various points over the last two decades, this fiery pool has been the ...