See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the ...

It's the seventh eruption since just before Christmas at one of the world's most active volcanoes, with lava shooting ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

Iceland has seen some major volcanic activity in the last couple of years. Travel expert Rick Steves has some advice for ...

Residents of Hawaii have been sharing video and photos of the Kilauea volcano's spectacular eruption as the most... Lava erupts in the Halemaʻumaʻu Crater of the Kilauea Volcano on January 6 ...

In Norway, scientists have found blue rings in trees that hint at how volcanic eruptions disrupted growth throughout history.

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano erupted in a minor phreatic event early Wednesday morning, January 22. It’s the third eruption from the volcano this year, Phivolcs reported. Two weeks after ...