Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Above the havoc, a cloud of volcanic steam and ash rose 30,000 feet. Eruptions of steam, ash, and tephra continued until June 1917, when the volcano resumed its quiet profile, with minor steam ...

Mile-wide, white-hot volcanic vents ripped through the rocks ... (Picture: ruins of Pompeii with Mount Vesuvius in the background) ...

Iceland is one of the most volcanically active regions on Earth. Since 2021, there have been 10 eruptions on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, which have garnered worldwide attention and captured the ...

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast ...

Fifty-seven people were killed by the initial landslide and fallout, making it the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. It also caused around $1 billion in damages (equivalent to around $3 ...

Pumice and volcanic ash soils with Mt Etna in the background. Again, soils originating from volcanic ashes are a natural defense against a historical enemy of Vitis Vinifera called Phylloxera ...

The Samoa volcanic islands form as the Pacific tectonic ... matching to select these small earthquakes from a noisy seismic background because the seismic signal of the American Samoa earthquake ...

Few people have the tenacity of ecologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, willing to spend part of each year since 1973 in a tent on a tiny, barren volcanic island in the Galapagos. Even fewer would ...