Fast moving and unpredictable, volcanic tsunamis can devastate entire coastlines ...

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, ...

A catastrophic volcanic eruption 7,300 years ago devastated Japan, but new research reveals that its impact on prehistoric ...

In a new study led by geologists and archeologists from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Pompeii Archaeological Park, the authors show that the destruction of the Roman ...

A new study published today in the journal Science Advances reports that the argon-argon dating method calibrated with that August 24, 79 CE is now even more precise. Argon-argon dating measures the ...

The thought of living near an active volcano probably sounds like an unimaginable risk to you—and rightly so. An active volcano is never safe and can turn a forested hillside into a lifeless wasteland ...

Whenever Mt. Hood erupts, Portland will be glad to have David George. As a U.S. Geological Survey mathematician, George models landslides and lahars at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, ...

Anak Krakatau’s latest eruption created two new land formations in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait.Could they eventually become new ...

This remarkable volcanic landscape looks almost too extraordinary to be real. There are some places in the world that look so unusual that it's hard to believe that they are real. As a traveller, you ...