For two weeks Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, has been spewing forth its contents.
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Mt Cotopaxi is the highest active volcano in Ecuador and one of the highest in the world.
The island has an active volcano, Mount Pelee, which erupted in 1902, razing the town of Saint-Pierre and killing its 30, 000 residents.
Rather than relying on fire, electricity or natural gas, chefs at El Diablo heat their meat over a still-active volcano.
Mount Rainier is also an active volcano - although there has been no activity since the 1850s and geologists say there is no imminent threat of eruption.
The next step is to hop on a TeleferiQo cable car and ride up the slopes of Mt Pichincha, the active volcano that overlooks Quito.
We pass a white wall of mountains off to the left and, on the right, an active volcano with steam curling out of the vent.
Silicon Valley is always evolving, like an active volcano that erupts every few years with creative destruction that brings forth a new formulation of ideas, technologies, and commercialization.
Via i09: Nature photographer and scientist Richard Roscoe once took a page from MythBusters and decided to find out what would happen if a person ever fell into an active volcano.
In a New York magazine story, she describes living in Indonesia in her early 20s, where she suffered hepatitis, had her leg operated on without benefit of anesthesia, and almost fell into an active volcano.
Lying in the shadow of the active volcano Mt Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes is an unrivalled natural landscape where water is clean enough to drink, sweet-smelling air comes alive with native birdsong and fern-filled forests are as bright as a bottle of absinthe.
As we head back out into the paddy fields, he lights a clove-scented cigarette and points to the shadowy, still-active volcano that shares its name with him - Gunung Agung, the tallest, most sacred mountain on Bali, from which rivers are said to flow and the volcanic soil gains its rich fertility.
Officials issue a red alert for the increasingly active Copahue volcano bordering Chile and Argentina and order about 3, 000 people to evacuate.
"On the east coast, you can find the still-active Arenal volcano where you can zip line next to it through the jungle canopy as it puffs gaseous steam and molten lava, " Amerson said.
Such data provides the high resolution details from which we can see how the Earth's structures have formed, measures the exact size and shape of the volcano and provides a vital snapshot of the Earth's active and sometimes violent volcanic system in action.
The magnificently situated Rancho las Hamacas in San Jacinto, northwest Nicaragua, overlooks the natural bubbling mud pools of Hervideros de San Jacinto, where you can camp for the night before climbing the smoking Volcano Telica, one of the country's 12 fumingly active Maribios volcanoes.
The 2, 869-meter-tall volcano, which last erupted in May, is one of the most active in Kamchatka, the agency said.
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