A massive volcanic eruption in Tonga produced one of the largest explosions ever captured by satellites, sending a powerful ...

Volcanic eruptions are known for their spectacular visual displays of vivid lava, as well as the devastating impacts they can ...

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The 56th episode of Kilauea’s Halema’uma’u eruption began Thursday afternoon with initial lava fountains reaching 100 feet.

Euronews reports on a Durham University study of 30 teeth from 21 people buried at the Coach Lane cemetery in northeast ...

Learn how an ancient volcanic eruption in Chile buried a vast landscape, concealing clues on the rise of the Andes Mountains. Pompeii getting buried in ash and rock is far from the only ...

Around 5,250 BCE a series of volcanic activity rocked Japan's southernmost island, Kyushu. Known as the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, the blast was enormous, notching a seven on the Volcanic Explosivity ...

Mount Etna’s ancient eruptions followed radically different paths, with some magma lingering near the surface for weeks while other magma raced upward from nearly 30 kilometers deep in just hours.

Instead, the prolonged period of cooling during the 13th through 19th centuries was the result of increased volcanic ...

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may ...