The Unzen disaster is remembered not just for its death toll, but for the lessons it taught about interconnected natural hazards. It highlights how volcanic activity can trigger cascading disasters ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to study life’s earliest stages. Researchers traced the genetic origins of an ...

Earth faced one of the deadliest natural disasters in history — the Toba supereruption in Indonesia. This colossal blast was ...

Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have determined the genetic lineage of a now extinct plant population from ...

The local government unit (LGU) of Canlaon City in Negros Oriental is prepared to respond anytime in the event Mt. Kanlaon ...

The Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices (DRRMOs) in localities close to Mt. Kanlaon have gone on alert after the volcano showed renewed signs of restiveness on Sunday. “We are in contact ...

In a stylish satire of the way celebs advocate for a better world, our fate comes down to a single self-centered movie star, played by Chris Evans.

After graduating from Waiakea High School, I went east for my undergraduate degree at Harvard, in Cambridge, Mass. During the ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

AARP teams up with WA Emergency Management Division to help caregivers prepare for a natural disaster. Sponsored by AARP.

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

By Thomas Lee, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Geology Department Professor . Born and raised in Hilo, I grew up hiking in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, fishing in Kaʻū, and ...