Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection minister to call a meeting with local and disaster response officials ...

In a mesmerizing image captured by NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, the summit of Mount Vesuvius, one of the world’s most ...

All thinking citizens who visit the mighty Pompeii * exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will have shudder-making ...

Northern California's Sáttítla Highlands are a testament to the region's volcanic past, with the landscape dramatically ...

What Shaped Santorini’s Crescent Shores? Discover how Santorini's iconic crescent coastline was carved out by a volcanic ...

There has been a great deal of hype on social media about a “great planetary alignment” of planets occurring on Jan. 25, when ...

Thanks to these tools, false starts – common in volcano monitoring – have not posed much confusion here. Underwater eruptions may seem distant to folks on land, but they have global significance. The ...

Thousands of civilians in a remote part of northeastern Ethiopia are being evacuated after potentially dangerous volcanic activity, officials said Friday. The evacuations come after steam ...

The 200-year-old volcanic eruption mystery of 1831 has been solved, bringing the Kuril islands or “Ring of Fire” to light.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s climate, scientists have identified the source: the Zavaritskii volcano in the remote Kuril Islands. For almost 200 years ...

The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano, Kuril Islands, viewed from the International Space ... [+] Station. A new study says that a similar eruption was behind a cooling event with worldwide ...

Now, after nearly 200 years, scientists have identified the 'mystery volcano' that cooled down the Earth's climate when it erupted in 1831. In their research, published in Proceedings of the ...