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 ...

The revised plan details everything from clearing key roads to stockpiling masks and goggles, as Tokyo prepares for a ...

A natural disaster occurring in your destination while abroad is one of the most terrifying things many travelers can imagine ...

Kevin Feige was a production assistant on this 1990s natural disaster movie, which even featured some of the future stars of ...

Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to ...

Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J. L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, ...

Key points A multinational team of researchers, led by the University of Tasmania, have been investigating the aftermath of the 2022 eruption of the ...

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

Mount Fuji hasn't erupted since 1707. But for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day, Japanese officials have released computer- and AI-generated videos showing a simulation of a potential violent ...