In this video, we document the moment a calm volcanic landscape shifted into a sudden eruption. What began as a simple hike turned into a rapid evacuation as ash and pressure rose without warning.

The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

A recent volcanic eruption of the Hayli Hubbi Volcano in Ethiopia, which was dormant for over 12000 years, occurred. The huge ...

Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of ...

Scientists in the United States are preparing to drill into one of the country’s most closely watched volcanoes in a bid to ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study ...

The McDermitt Caldera most likely hosts the world's largest deposit of lithium trapped in claystone. Located on the Nevada – ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...