Humanity lives on a thin edge: we barely scratch beneath the crust of our planet and routinely travel only within less than ...

If you'd been on the Philippines island of Luzon on June 15, 1991, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that the world was ending. Typhoon Yunya was screaming across the island, but the angry skies ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing.

Deadliest volcanic eruption in US history:Fifty-seven people were killed, making the eruption the deadliest in U.S. history. The first sign of an eruption was recorded on March 20, 1980, when a ...

Etna, Europe's largest active volcano, is monitored closely due to its proximity to the city of Catania and several other ...

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia - A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia - spasms from the Pacific "Ring of Fire," which spawns disasters from deep ...

The eruption, which lasted around nine minutes, took place at 1:35 a.m. local time in East Nusa Tenggara province, according ...

Philippines' most active volcano "eruption is imminent," people warned. — -- The Philippines' most active volcano ejected an immense and thick gray cloud of lava, ash and steam on Monday, causing ...

Some Pacific Northwesterners woke Tuesday to an unusual sight: A smoky haze shrouded Mount St. Helens, the large, active stratovolcano in Washington state that erupted catastrophically in 1980. But a ...