A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often ...

Researchers have been able to read part of an ancient scroll burnt by Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago for the first ...

When British Airways flight 9 took off from Kuala Lumpur in June 1982, the pilot and passengers were unaware they were about ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and scientists have been observing it closely for decades.

The central North Island eruptions 30 years ago transformed New Zealand's approach to volcanic risk – and also the network of ...

The ban on ozone-depleting substances that successfully reversed the growth of the hole in the ozone layer isn’t seen as a ...

For historians and climate scientists, 536 has become a leading candidate for the worst year to be alive. “It was the ...

WHEN Cape Verde's greatest songs are written, there will be more than a few dedicated to the night when their football team ...

The papyrus manuscript was part of a vast library preserved by volcanic ash. Now, the remaining passages—which examine ethics ...

AI and advanced X-ray imaging have decoded the first sealed Herculaneum scroll, opening the door to reading hundreds of ...

Large fruits and seeds buried under volcanic ash nearly 75 million years ago upend the idea that flowering plants only came ...