Read about the volcano ... ash blocked sunlight, the resulting cooling led to crop failures, starvation of livestock, and widespread disease (including a typhus epidemic) and famine in human ...

The Greenland ice cores included ash layers and microscopic volcanic glass—shards “roughly one-tenth the diameter of a human hair,” Hutchison says in a statement. Chemical analyses of these ...

A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition of magma could ...

HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii - as gas and ash transformed locals ... during one of the deadliest volcanic events in history.

MANILA, Philippines — Kanlaon Volcano expelled ash for more than three hours on Thursday morning, January 16, according to Phivolcs. This is one of the longest ash emission events recorded at ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island expelled ash for around two hours on Wednesday, January 8, Phivolcs reported. Captured by the IP Camera of Mansalanao, La Castella station ...

Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia, erupted again on Wednesday, sending ash into the skies over Lumajang Regency, local authorities reported. A column of volcanic ash was thrown approximately 1 ...

CANBERRA--The eruption of Papua New Guinea’s tallest volcano subsided Tuesday, but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby. One of the South Pacific nation ...

Ash emissions continued at Kanlaon Volcano, with two events lasting from 39 to 66 minutes long recorded Monday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said. Time-lapse ...