Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

A volcanic eruption around the year 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic, the ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Satellite data show that the eruption sent a massive ash column soaring between 10 km and 15 km into the atmosphere. According to reports, a plume traveling at 100-120 km/h could reach parts of ...

Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia began erupting shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks shook the same area. "A descent of hot lava is observed on the western ...

Hawaii's restless landscape delivered another dramatic reminder of nature's raw power this week. The Big Island, home to one ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st ...