Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a ...

Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...

Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

Nearly 2000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius (Campania, Italy) erupted and buried the small Roman ... be a correct depiction of the ...

Discover the explosive forces that helped create some of the most dynamic worlds in our cosmic neighborhood – and what makes the volcanoes right here on Earth so special. National Corporate ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

That was reassuring, at least for the time being. The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875.

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano erupted in a phreatic event early Thursday morning, October 10, according to the state seismology bureau, Phivolcs The minor phreatic eruption, as captured by ...

Further chemical analysis of the zircon crystals revealed that all had broadly the same composition, meaning they must have come from magma with the same composition as the "young" volcanoes.

Instead, an 8-mile-wide caldera – riddled with volcanoes – is recessed in the ... “We live in a marvelous territory, our Campania, a beautiful territory, and we don’t have to leave.