Authorities have declared the highest alert level on the island of Halmahera in Indonesia. Approximately 3,000 people have ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

A volcanic eruption in Auckland will likely result in slow moving rivers of lava flowing through the city, so New Zealand ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted at least a thousand times this month, according to an official report Sunday as ...

ROME - Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano ... spurts of lava lighting up the Sicilian sky each night. The latest eruption overnight petered out by around 0900 GMT Tuesday, according ...

The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in a cataclysmic eruption. It was an Earth-shaking event.

The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano, Kuril Islands, viewed from the International Space ... [+] Station. A new study says that a similar eruption was behind a cooling event with worldwide ...

Earlier in the day, Anadolu Ajansi reported a volcanic eruption at Ethiopia's central Mount Dofan. The region has recently experienced frequent minor tremors, according to local media reports.

Residents in northeastern Ethiopia have been moved to temporary shelters following fears of a potential volcanic eruption ... the long-dormant volcano of Mount Dofen. However, not all triggers ...

Examination of the Greenland ice cores revealed that in 1831, sulphur fallout - a sign of volcanic activity - was about six-and-a-half times greater in Greenland than it was in Antarctica. This ...

Researchers have identified the source of a huge volcanic eruption that posed a mystery for nearly 200 years, a study reports. The event, which took place in 1831, was one of the largest eruptions ...

A volcanic eruption has struck Ethiopia's central Mount Dofan, a region that has recently experienced frequent minor tremors, according to local media reports on Friday. The tremors in the Awash ...