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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turkmenistan's Darvaza Gas Crater, famously known as the \"Door to Hell,\" has been burning for 54 years. This fiery ...