Sep 18
Let’s say you wanted to get up close and personal with an active volcano, in the same way you might stand next to a raging, spewing waterfall. If you are three Brits, you’d battle weather conditions for 35 days and then perch yourself at the rim of the Marum Volcano’s lava lake on Ambrym Island …
Jun 28
The next time you find yourself walking on a lava lake (a thin crust of dried lava covering a pool of molten goo), be careful. Scientists wondered what would happen if a human fell through the crust and into the really hot stuff. At Ethiopia’s Erta Ale volcano, they dropped a garbage bag filled with …