Montserrat's capital Plymouth is a ghost town - it was abandoned after the eruptions In July 1995, Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano began to erupt on a massive scale. The effects were devastating.

For first-time visitors to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, some of the local vocabulary evokes Geology 101. Words like “pyroclastic flow,” “seismic” and “dome collapse” pop up often in ...

While St. Patrick's Day was once a one-day only event in Montserrat, the celebration of all things Irish has now spanned to an all-encompassing week-long affair. Indeed, it is the only country in the ...

LITTLE BAY, Montserrat — It was called Operation Exodus -- a plan to abandon this British Caribbean island en masse in case the erupting Soufriere Hills volcano made life unlivable. The volcano came ...