People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano off the coast of Oregon, United States, is expected to erupt sometime this 2025, according to scientists. Experts have recently detected increased volcanic activity ...

New study suggests rise of ancient city Tiwanaku coincided with major volcanic event in Lake Titicaca Basin's vicinity ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a volcano.

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives—a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) ...

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.

Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs.

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

Islands can literally pop out of nowhere if an underwater volcano begins to erupt and recently, just off the coast of Japan, that’s exactly what happened. Experts now say the violent eruption has ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Volcanic eruptions were cataclysmic in centuries past, from the 43 B.C. eruption of a volcano in Alaska that caused failed ...