Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, on the southeastern Indonesian island of Flores, erupted for about six minutes on Monday morning, ...

Eruption viewing areas within the national park are unaffected, but there can be decreased air quality in communities ...

A vintage look at the Inter-American Highway from Laredo to Panama in 1964. See road construction, cultural exchange, and ...

Those who can handle some serious huff-and-puff, and a ludicrously early start, can rise at midnight to summit Baru volcano for sunrise (take plenty of water for the 26-kilometre round trip).

The event would most likely occur at the volcano's Crater Peak side vent, which last erupted in 1992. During that eruption, ANC shut down for 20 hours while the ash cloud hung over Anchorage.

Costa Rica is a small but stunning country in Central America, located between Nicaragua (north) and Panama (south). It is unique because it borders both the Pacific Ocean (west) and the Caribbean Sea ...

Panama has officially informed Beijing of its decision to withdraw from China's massive infrastructure and investment project, the Belt and Road Initiative, the country's leader announced on ...

Now, the territorial ambitions announced by Donald Trump (buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal, and making Canada the 51st U.S. state) confer a new qualitative rank to Russian expansionism ...

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Most of the volcanoes you see today are 500,000 to 250,000 years old. But there are also younger volcanoes. Nicaragua’s Cerro Negro is the youngest, dating from 1867.

In the early Miocene Epoch, about 23 million years ago, the great land masses of South America and the Caribbean plate collided, shaping the landscape of Panama and the rest of Central America.