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 ...

A volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused a global climate crisis, and it led to the publication of the world's first true ...

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 islands of the West Indies were once home to a group of rats of nightmarish proportions. These super-rats, some as large ...

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 ...

The on-and-off eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano broke a record Monday with the number of periods it has produced fountains of lava since it began erupting in December 2024, the Hawaiian Volcano ...

On Monday, the volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island had a 48th episode of “lava fountaining” in an eruption that began in 2024. By Victor Mather The volcano Kilauea erupts all the time, as it has for ...