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 ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with ...

Scientists predict a catastrophic future for Earth due to rising temperatures accelerated by carbon dioxide. A computer simulation suggests that in 250 million years, the Earth will become ...

Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to ...

Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found.

VOLCANO, Hawaii (KHON2) — The Kilauea eruption within the Halemaʻumaʻu crater paused again the afternoon of Jan. 25, when lava flows stopped erupting out of the northern vent. Get Hawaii’s latest ...

It's not an explosive eruption, but calm effusions of lava flowing out of the caldera and across the seafloor.' After closely monitoring the volcano's activity, Oregon State University Research ...