Mashable’s Ranked series crowns the best and sorts the rest. Earth is home to about 1,500 active or potentially active volcanoes, with around 20 of these often-steaming vents erupting on any one day.

Lava is supposed to be red—that’s volcanoes 101. But at Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen, the Earth decides to break the rules. Instead of the classic fiery orange glow, this volcano bleeds electric blue. It’s ...

Scientists have recently discovered a new way that volcanoes are forming – deep below the paradise island of Bermuda. We all know from middle school Earth Science that the shifting of tectonic plates ...