Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...

An eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki stratovolcano rained debris and ash on villages on the island of Flores.

A recent update on the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) website offers new insights into the timing of a potential eruption of ...

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption ...

If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago was bad, think again. Travel ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the ...

Research into the history of Mount Fuji’s past eruptions ... Such research should also be carried out into other volcanoes, starting with major ones. The Japan Meteorological Agency’s ...

The eruption produces volcanic ash, ejected incandescent rocks ... Mount Iya is a stratovolcano with eruption history recorded since 1671, and the last eruption occurred in 1969. The interval between ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a thousand years later. Their decomposed bodies were preserved by the ash, and ...