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"Pompeii: The Exhibition" opens Nov. 15 at Graceland, featuring a collection artifacts from the ancient Roman city that was ...

Pompeii, 23km southeast of Naples, was home to about 13,000 people when it was buried under ash, pumice pebbles and dust as it endured the force of an eruption equivalent to many atomic bombs.

Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted early Monday on Hawaii’s Big Island, sending out glittering ...

A meteorite hit Earth about 66 million years ago near what today is the Yucatán peninsula, causing widespread destruction and death. But almost simultaneously, intense volcanism covered a vast ...

She said: “These volcanic eruptions and associated CO2 and sulphur release would have had drastic consequences for life on Earth. “But these events happened millennia before the meteorite ...

“While the volcanic eruptions did change the climate, they happened too early to play a major role in the extinction of the dinosaurs,” explains Lauren O’Connor from Utrecht University.

Although it has been frozen in time for nearly 2,000 years, the ancient ruins of Pompeii – the Roman town destroyed by the ...

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the ...

Lava is erupting from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano for the second straight day. The eruption has stayed within Kilauea’s summit ...

Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into ...