Tenerife introduces new eco-tax for popular tourist attraction

Tourists planning to hike popular trails at Tenerife ’s Teide National Park will face fees of up to £22, as a new “eco-tax” ...
Smithsonian Magazine

‘Volcanic Unrest’ at Alaska’s Mount Spurr Suggests 50-50 Chance an Eruption Could Be Coming

A volcano in southern Alaska is rumbling with seismic activity, which hints at the possibility that it might soon erupt. Mount Spurr, an 11,070-foot-tall stratovolcano roughly 75 miles from Anchorage, ...
PBS

The Massive Mudflows of Glacier Peak Volcano

The tulips of the Skagit Flats are connected to a stratovolcano high in the Cascades. Washington’s most remote stratovolcano stands high in the Cascades, 50 miles from the waters of Puget Sound. In ...
USA Today

Mount Etna erupts with huge plume of ash; tourists seek safety

A volcanic eruption in Italy left people scurrying for cover from what officials are saying is a pyroclastic flow. Several videos circulating online show people running as smoke from the side of Mount ...
The Bellingham Herald

Hundreds of earthquakes detected at Mount Rainier on Tuesday. What’s going on?

Mount Rainier experienced its largest earthquake swarm since 2009 on Tuesday. USGS reported hundreds of small quakes under the surface near the stratovolcano's summit . The agency said there was no ...
Newsweek

Images Capture Dramatic Volcanic Eruption at Mount Ruang

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan. You ...