While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

A study of volcanic cones near the equator on Mars is challenging what scientists previously knew about when and where water ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

One of the last things you'd think could be lost is a volcano. Yet, when we look at the record of volcanic activity, even in the past few hundred years, there are signals that a large eruption ...

New study suggests rise of ancient city Tiwanaku coincided with major volcanic event in Lake Titicaca Basin's vicinity ...

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

Experts believe a Mount Rainier eruption would post a grave threat to millions who live in the southern and eastern sections ...

Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs.

Violent eruptions continue in Hawaii, sending lava hundreds of feet into the air and spreading glass threads over nearby areas.

Credit: Future Flooding seems like a logical explanation — perhaps water from a distant region was pushed into the area during a volcanic eruption, forming the rootless cones. But the problem is ...