Three million people living near Mexico’s nearly 18,000-foot Popocatépetl volcano are facing evacuation orders as it continues to spew ash across the region, forcing schools to close and hundreds of ...

Mexico on Sunday raised the alert level for the Popocatépetl volcano to "yellow phase 3", which is just below the "red" alarm level. Hundreds of tremors have been registered in the region in the last ...

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico spent five years hauling instruments up the 5,426-meter volcano ...

Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has long drawn attention for its size, constant activity, and glowing plumes of smoke and ash, ...

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

Ash from Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano shrouded the sky and collected on cars in the central Mexican state of Puebla on May 23, one day after reports of two moderate eruptions. Javier Moran recorded ...

Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center (CENAPRED) has issued a "yellow phase 2" alert, asking people to stay away from the volcano Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She ...

A volcano in Mexico known as “El Popo” spewed a huge plume of ash cloud into the evening sky on Tuesday. Captivating video shows Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano unleashing smoke, ash and gas about two ...

Cristopher Rogel Blanquet / Getty Images Popocatepétl volcano just outside Mexico City has been erupting occasionally since 1994, but over the past week it has rumbled every day. Scientists have ...

“In the case of Mexico City, the risk is ash fall. We are prepared for that scenario and we know what to do. Let’s stay alert,” Mexico city’s mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said in a tweet on Sunday.