so a full eruption is expected anytime soon. The Cotopaxi is one of the most active volcanoes in Ecuador. At 5,897 meters above sea level, it is the second-highest peak in the country and together ...

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa ... Cotopaxi is one of the world's highest active volcanoes and is popular with tourists. Its last eruption took place in 1940, according to the Smithsonian ...

A volcanic eruption in Ecuador has covered 80,000 hectares of farming land in Ecuador in ash, the Andean country's government says. The worst affected areas are the provinces of Chimborazo and ...

It was one of the largest eruptions of the last century. Getty Images The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupting in 2016 However in other instances, such as the eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan ...

Mount Chimborazo of Ecuador may be a dormant volcano, but its neighbors are anything but. In fact, the nearby Reventador volcano has erupted more than 25 times in the past 500 years. (02:11 ...

One of the most dramatic volcanic eruptions in history occurred more than 1,000 years ago. Scientists are still piecing ...

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii ... closely watching Cotopaxi, an active volcano that threatens more than a million people in the Andes highlands of Ecuador. He was unaware of the Castel ...

A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting, lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbled down its sides toward the sea. The La Cumbre volcano on Fernandina island ...

Natural wonders become disasters. The same is true for plenty of erupting volcanoes, whether they’re exploding with cataclysmic force or oozing incandescent molten rock. But not always.

Galapagos Tortoises are among the most iconic animals in the world. Extremely rare, they exist naturally only on the Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador. Of the original 15 species of giant ...

Kilauea erupted briefly Sunday night in a section of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park that remains off-limits to the public. The eruption in the volcano's middle East Rift Zone resumed Monday night ...