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 ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

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

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

Kilauea's volcanic activity on Wednesday marked the fifth episode since the latest eruption began in December 2024.

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

Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano off the coast of Oregon, United States, is expected to erupt sometime this 2025, according to scientists. Experts have recently detected increased volcanic activity ...

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.