ROME -- A giant explosion from an Italian volcano sent locals and tourists running for cover on Wednesday. Stromboli, a volcano located on a small island off the coast of Sicily, erupted, sending a ...

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

Satellite images have captured a rare volcanic eruption that occurred Sunday at Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano, sending towering ash plumes toward Yemen and Oman. The eruption is the first recorded ...

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Deep under the Pacific Ocean, more than 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies a restless underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount. It is the most active submarine volcano in the northeast Pacific and ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...

A towering wall of fire brightened the night sky over the Caspian Sea on Sunday due in part to a unique geologic formation. Just after sunset on July 4, a large explosion and fireball could be seen ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we predict volcanic eruptions, propelling the accuracy of forecasts and potentially averting numerous casualties. Let’s delve into the ...

The November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano and the resulting Armero disaster marked a turning point in natural hazard and risk research, assessment and mitigation. Here, we ...