Lava from an erupting volcano in the DR Congo was still flowing Friday, a vulcanologist said, threatening wildlife in a national park that is home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas. The amount of lava being spewed from Mount Nyamulagira was "sustained and won't stop as soon as all that," Goma Vulcanological Observatory director Karume Katcho ...

Costa Rica on Wednesday raised an alert level to cover a wider area around the Turrialba volcano, a day after it erupted. "The alert level is rising from green to yellow," Vanessa Rosales, the head of the National Emergency Commission, told a news conference in the capital San Jose, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the volcano. Winds were sweeping ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Costa Rica's Turrialba volcano, last active in the 19th century, erupted on Tuesday, spewing ash and steam and prompting authorities to evacuate a small number of people from its slopes. The 11,000-foot (3,340-meter) volcano is situated east of the capital San Jose in the remote, lushly forested central highlands of the Central ...