Explore the world’s most desolate and dangerous areas, revealing extreme environments and the challenges faced by those daring to venture into these remote places.

The less-visited corners of Kyushu Island are home to dramatic landscapes and hidden sanctuaries linked to Shinto creation ...

From the sky, Aogashima looks almost impossible. A giant volcanic crater rises from the Pacific Ocean, and inside that crater sits another smaller volcano. Tucked between the steep green slopes is a ...

A volcano that slept for more than 100,000 years before erupting is blowing up our understanding of when volcanoes should be defined as active or extinct. Volcanologists officially classify sleeping ...

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The last eruption of Greece’s Methana volcano was around 250 B.C.E. Ever since that event, which was recorded by the Greek historian Strabo, the mountain has lurked silently, just across the Saronic ...

Sakurajima is an active volcano on the Osumi peninsula in Kagoshima prefecture on the southern tip of Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. The mountain rises to an elevation of 3,644 ...

Japan’s most active volcano, Sakurajima, has erupted again, sending a massive ash plume 3.4 kilometres into the sky and disrupting flights near Kagoshima. The eruption from the Minamidake crater ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...