The remnants of buildings damaged during the volcanic eruption still stand as a somber reminder of that fateful day in 1994, ...

Hawaii Island's Kilauea volcano began erupting on Sunday, Nov. 9, drawing in hordes of visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park eager to witness the natural spectacle. As one of the world's most ...

Frightening video captured the moment a volcano in the Philippines erupted over the weekend — spewing plumes of black smoke 7,000 feet into the sky. The Taal Volcano, located south of Manila, ...

A volcano near the Iran-Pakistan border rose multiple inches between 2023 and 2024 — raising alarm that it may be nearing an eruption for the first time in more than 700,000 years. The Taftan volcano ...

WHEN a natural disaster occurs in the islands: tsunami, earthquake, volcano, or typhoon, there is a similar pattern of events. Usually there is little warning of the danger. Even if there was, it ...

A circular scar on Alaska’s face speaks to an event that may have contributed to the fall of societies on the far side of the world. Two thousand years ago, Alaska’s Mount Okmok volcano spewed ash ...

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...

Jayde N. Hirniak has received funding from the Hyde Family Foundation, Institute of Human Origins, Geological Society of America, Society for Archaeological Sciences, and the Cave Research Foundation ...

Severe volcanic eruptions and changes in the activity of the sun may have set the scene for some of the world’s most famous rebellions, including the French Revolution. It has long been known that ...

Japanese meteorological agencies said the Shinmoedake volcano had erupted in the early hours of Thursday morning, August 28, sending a plume of ash 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) into the sky. Officials ...