OMETEPE, Nicaragua Any local guide will tell you, a climber should not attempt an ascent of Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano by its south- ern flank. It's too fragile, and volcanologists fear it will ...

MANAGUA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Nicaragua's Concepcion volcano erupted on Friday, spewing gas and smoke almost 500 feet (150 metres) into the air and dumping ash on three nearby villages, but there were ...

Ometepe, Nicaragua — Any local guide will tell you, a climber should not attempt an ascent of Nicaragua’s Concepcion volcano by its southern flank. It’s too fragile, and volcanologists fear it will ...

It is Concepcion that worries me. It is the active volcano I had committed to scaling. Volcan Concepcion towers 5,280 feet up from Lake Nicaragua, Central America's largest lake. (The lake is also ...

Orchid and bromeliad species richness and cover were examined in 14 plots at 100-m intervals at 200-1500 m elevation along a 1957 flow of aa lava (blocky lava with a high silica content) on Concepción ...