At Thrihnukagigur ("Three Peaks Crater") you can take an elevator inside a volcano's magma chamber. Cave explorer Dr. Árni B Stefánsson discovered the chamber in 1974 and fought to open it to visitors ...

Hardened lava crunches under your boots. Pungent sulphur fumes shroud the bizarre black landscape. Warm, sometimes scalding ...

Thríhnúkagígur is a volcano near Reykjavík in Iceland with an empty magma chamber decorated with vivid colors that scientists ...

An Icelandic volcano erupted early Wednesday, spewing a bright red wall of lava in a region known for high seismic activity. The eruption began in the early morning hours of July 16, on the Sundhnúkur ...

Iceland is a country of extremes. It’s an otherworldly place bordering on the supernatural where the threat of deadly volcanic eruption looms over all life as the country grows two centimetres apart ...

“To witness these powerful forces, the roar of Earth, is mind blowing,” says Ingimundur Stefansson, an Icelandic tour guide. “Man is a small potato in such a world.” In part because of our fascination ...

Thríhnúkagígur, a dormant volcano near Reykjavík, is the only known site on Earth where visitors can descend into an emptied magma chamber. Its last eruption 4,500 years ago left a vast, vividly ...

A police officer stands by the crack in a road in the fishing town of Grindavik, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, in Iceland, November 15, 2023. automation There remains a "significant ...

Four decades on, the gap between well-monitored volcanoes and unmonitored ones still shapes who lives and dies. The new ...