⚠️🌍 BREAKING: Great Sitkin Volcano Erupts in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands 🌍⚠️ Great Sitkin, one of Alaska’s most active volcanoes, is showing powerful new activity: 🔥 Lava fills the summit crater — steady growth of lava flows now pushing down the southwest slope. ⛰️ Rockfalls triggered as unstable slopes collapse under the pressure of molten rock. 🚨 Hazards: Lava may enter valleys below, endangering terrain, ecosystems, and potential infrastructure. ✈️ Air traffic risk: Elevated heat, steaming,

One of Alaska’s many volcanoes, Mt Spurr, is thinking about erupting. There is a long line of volcanoes starting at the north end of the Aleutian Range and continuing down through the Aleutian Islands. These volcanoes are part of the “Ring of Fire”, a series of 452 volcanoes that stretch from the southern tip of South America, up along the coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan and into New Zealand. Willy flew past Mt Spurr this winter and took this video. #volcano

The Aleutian Islands are a rugged, wild network of islands between the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. Conservationist and nature photographer Ian Shive Photography takes us behind the scenes as he documents the rich wildlife that inhabits them. → Discovery.com/aleutianislands Follow Ian’s full adventure in #TheLastUnknown, streaming March 18 on #discoveryplus. #AleutianIslands #island #naturephotography #wildlife #conservation #natureinfocus | Discovery