In the eastern reaches of Java, Indonesia, the Kawah Ijen volcano stuns the world with a spectacle of neon-blue flames ...

Photographs supposedly documenting vibrant, blue-hued molten rock erupting from a volcano in Ethiopia were shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Aug. 20, 2023, (archived here).As of this writing, the ...

Unlike the molten rock that erupts from most volcanoes in a fiery red-orange hue, Kawah Ijen’s lava is not really blue. The phenomenon, known locally as Api Biru (Blue Fire), is caused by the ...

For several years Paris-based photographer Olivier Grunewald has been documenting the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia, where dazzling, electric-blue fire can often be seen streaming down the ...

Lava erupted from the volcano’s top crater on Feb. 11 and again on Feb. 20, and lava fountains rose 60 to 400 feet, according to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

Photographs shared to social media depicted a volcano in Ethiopia as it “erupts blue lava.” While the two photographs were authentic, they did not show “blue lava” erupting from a single ...