Lee Hyeon-seo

My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it's a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.

South Korean Writer

Lucky Blue Smith

One of my favorite shots was on these, like, lava rocks - but moss was growing on it, and I was lying on it, and it was really green, and the picture was really pretty.

American Model

Jan de Bont

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Dutch Director

Bella Heathcote

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

Australian Actress

Isabel Yosito

Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace.

American Artist

Lava is often associated with destruction since it can burn and cover everything in its path.

Naturally Destructive

When lava cools and hardens, it forms volcanic rock that can create new landforms.

Cooled Form

The word 'lava' can be used metaphorically to describe intense emotions like anger.

Metaphorical Usage

 Scientists are currently monitoring the world's active volcanoes, and procedures for predicting eruptions, conducting evacuations and diverting lava flows have improved over the years. But the massive scale and global reach of a supervolcano means that for many people there would be nowhere to run.

The colossal consequences...

 And each of these looks like a hydrogen bomb; actually, the effects are even worse. This is when deep-Earth material comes to the surface, spreads out over the surface of the planet. Well, it's not the lava that kills anything, it's the carbon dioxide that comes out with it.

Earth's mass extinctions...

 The difference likely comes down to the lava that followed many of Hawaii's worst earthquakes. The lava on Hawaii is made of basalt, which once cooled, is highly fertile. Within a couple of decades of terrible eruptions, Islanders would have seen vibrant green life thriving

The scientific origins...

 their trek is about the length of two football pitches laid end to end and they're not traveling empty-handed each ant carries a lava or a pupa hung below her body the equivalent of us running a marathon while carrying a sack of potatoes

5 Reasons Ants Are...

 destruction it is also a force of beauty and rebirth for the planet lava creates new lands where life can flourish like it or not volcanoes are part of the planets life cycle as the Earth continues to explode gurgle and slither

Volcanoes 101 PIPE National...

 idea but I talked that into allowing me and off I went luck struck on my very first visit who could have ever imagined that life could exist in this mars-like landscape while photographs in this scorching lava

Spotting the camel...

 and a heavy gear. It was just amazing and bombs were flying around you, so I got so addicted I always wanted to see the biggest lava lake in the world. And this is the travel I want to take you on.

Carsten Peter: Inside...

 the caterpillar mimics the sound and smell of the ants own young and mistaken for a mislaid ant lava is taken back to the nest by the foraging ant workers but it doesn't repay the favor once

Beautiful Butterfly...

 it's not the lava or ash that wiped out life but an invisible gas released by volcanoes called carbon dioxide

Is Humanity The Next...

 lava still flowing beneath it the advance is relentless and