What would happen if a supervolcano erupted? The massive explosion could trigger catastrophic climate changes, widespread ...

He added that the residents who chose to stay argued they were used to Mount Ibu's eruptions. As of Thursday morning, 517 residents from the village closest to the volcano had been evacuated.

Tropical flora thrived post-volcanic activity. Angiosperms flourished in warm, undisturbed climates. Vast eruptions during the Deccan Volcanism have been identified as causal agents of mass ...

Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed ...

Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park resumed eruptions Wednesday with what was described as a small lava flow followed by "low-level continuous lava spattering" and some fountaining ...

Data shows that the volcano has been swelling, with changing rates that hint at an upcoming eruption. Its activity caught the attention of experts because it shows a pattern of erupting after reaching ...

The evacuations come after steam eruptions have been seen since Thursday from the long-dormant volcano of Mount Dofen, raising fears of a volcanic eruption that could put many people at risk.

The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in a cataclysmic eruption. It was an Earth-shaking event.

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

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 ...