“What is an ash cloud? It’s a dilute part of the pyroclastic ... cooled and heated fragments of the glass sampled from inside the skull and spine to understand what degree of heat and ...

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 transformed one unfortunate victim’s brain into organic glass.

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

The ash cloud produced by the eruption of a sub-glacial volcano in Iceland brought chaos to the European air industry between 14 and 21 April. Since then, disruption to flights has continued ...

An eruption by Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano, located in the southeastern part of Flores Island, spewed ash clouds more than 8km (5 miles) into the air, disrupting flights and ...

Pic: Reuters/Pier Paolo Petrone The man was first discovered in the 1960s inside a building called ... of the eruption as the burning hot ash cloud hit. The city was buried in the latter stages ...

The ash cloud from the Chilean Volcano Puyehue-Cordón Caulle in eruption since June 4 has reached Cape Town airspace affecting flights in and out of Cape Town International Airport. One of the ...

An eruption from Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano on Thursday night sent a massive ash cloud more than 8km (5 miles) into the sky, disrupting air travel and raising emergency alerts ...