America’s deadliest volcano has just rattled through more than 1,000 tiny earthquakes in a matter of days, a drumbeat of tremors that has revived old fears about catastrophic mudflows racing down its ...

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Samuel Yap/ MANILA, Philippines – As it does every year, the Philippines was once again devastated by back-to-back, if not ...

New research suggests climate shocks from major volcanic eruptions may have disrupted harvests and helped trigger the Black ...

On a single day in November 2025, emergency managers across Washington state were inundated with calls about an eruption at ...

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

Ving Rhames hosts 'History’s Deadliest,' a series on The HISTORY Channel exploring the world’s most lethal people, disasters, ...

Between 1347 and 1353, it claimed the lives of millions of people.

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Today’s article is by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a large event in November — means it has now almost completely regrown. When you ...

In a new study about the potential origins of the Black Death, scientists suggested that one or more volcanic eruptions that occurred around 1345 may have allowed fleas infected with the bubonic ...