The last two decades of the 20th century were packed with newsworthy events, and some of them coincided with the year of your ...

Epidemics, volcanic eruptions, famine, and wars have always occurred, but some of them were far more terrible than others.

Today, Long Valley behaves with unnerving politeness—occasional uplift, periodic earthquakes, the subtle exhalation of ...

Around 74,000 years ago, a volcano called Toba in Sumatra exploded, and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...

The eruption lasted for just over 12 hours. Kīlauea spewed more than 3 billion gallons (16 million cubic yards) of lava during this event—enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools. The eruptive ...

Far beneath the forests and hot springs of the American West, the continent’s largest active volcanic system is rumbling in ...

Climate‑driven shifts due to volcanic activity, and the increase in grain trade helped bring the Black Death to Italian ports ...

The city of San Diego is set to pay $30 million to the parents of a teenager who was running away from gunshots fired by ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

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