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 ...

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Scientists knew a massive eruption caused this strange event, but the volcano responsible has remained a mystery — until now. By studying ash deposited in polar ice cores, scientists traced the ...