The Congo's Mount Nyiragongo erupted Saturday night (May 22), sending thousands of people fleeing across the border into Rwanda and filling the skies with orange-red smoke. By Sunday morning, the lava ...

On clear nights a red glow radiates from the top of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the mountain’s summit the source of the light thrashes and boils: the largest and most ...

Image by Carsten Peter Image: Futurism M.A. This may look like a monster walking out of the bowels of hell, but it is actually a member of a research team walking across a cooled lava floor which has ...

The regional observatory stationed in Goma to monitor the Mount Nyiragongo volcano had not been working for several months, DW has learned. The Goma Volcano Observatory was caught by surprise. Jack ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania, ...