Volcanic ash, often seen as a dangerous waste after eruptions, may have a surprising new purpose—shielding people from ...

The idea to use volcanic ash came after the Taal Volcano volcano eruption in 2020 – 43 years after its last eruption in 1977.

Researchers from the Ateneo de Manila University and from National University- Mall of Asia Campus have found a surprising ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that occurred almost 200 years ago has finally been solved thanks to ash traces preserved in ice cores. In 1831, famous German composer Felix ...

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 ...