If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge. Perhaps he was a security guard. He’s been ...

Hawai‘i County Parks and Recreation reports Pāhoa Community Aquatic Center reopens Monday (March 2) after a 5-plusweek closure because of volcanic material accumulating in the swimming pool.

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 500 years ago has (in part) been solved thanks to glass shards preserved in the ice covering Antarctica. In 1458 a volcano ...

A fragment of the organic glass found inside the skull of a Mt. Vesuvius victim. Almost 1,950 years after Mount Vesuvius erupted — leaving a trail of death and destruction that’s enthralled scientists ...

In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos and death. It was AD 79, and the volcano had unleashed its fury, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii Getty Images/Andrea Pucci The young man was found dead ...