The active Sakurajima stratovolcano in Kagoshima, Japan, erupted on Sunday, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky.

A volcano has erupted in Japan sending a huge ash cloud 16,000ft into the air and launching boulders nearly a mile, with residents warned they may have to evacuate. Sakurajima, a stratovolcano in ...

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

A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan.

Japan’s position along the “Ring of Fire”, a string of hundreds of volcanoes and earthquake sites in the Pacific Ocean, makes ...

TOKYO -- A tsunami advisory was issued for part of southwest Japan after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck Monday, but the ...

In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption cooled the Earth’s atmosphere by 1 degree Celsius and even caused the Sun to appear in ...

The Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands north of Japan was the culprit. The 1831 eruption threw huge quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, lowering global ...

Japan is a land of volcanoes, many of them very active. And anywhere there are volcanoes, you will almost always find hot springs. On this episode, Michael Keida treks down a trail leading north ...