Authorities have declared the highest alert level on the island of Halmahera in Indonesia. Approximately 3,000 people have ...

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 ...

Flash flooding and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java have killed at least 21 people and damaged villages and rice ...

In eastern Indonesia, a volcano has erupted at least 1,000 times this month. Thousands of villagers living near the active [… ...

JAKARTA: A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Saturday (Jan 11), spewing hot lava and releasing a column of smoke and ash 4km into the air, an official said. Mount Ibu, on Halmahera island ...

JAKARTA, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Mount Merapi, located near the densely populated city of Yogyakarta, the capital of the Special Region of Yogyakarta Province in Indonesia, emitted hot lava on Friday. The ...

Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia, erupted again on Wednesday, sending ash into the skies over Lumajang Regency, local authorities reported. A column of volcanic ash was thrown approximately 1 ...

It’s also one of the largest volcanoes on Earth. The Yellowstone Caldera is a 70 by 45 kilometre-wide crater in northwestern Wyoming, blasted out of the Earth’s crust some 640,000 years ago in ...

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s ... alongside Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1815) and Cosegüina in Nicaragua (1835). These events marked the tail end of ...

The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano, Kuril Islands, viewed from the International Space ... [+] Station. A new study says that a similar eruption was behind a cooling event with worldwide ...

Now, after nearly 200 years, scientists have identified the 'mystery volcano' that cooled down the Earth's climate when it erupted in 1831. In their research, published in Proceedings of the ...

At least 10 earthquakes were reported in Ethiopia since Friday, and there are signs of possible volcanic activity. The latest earthquakes shook the Awash Fentale district, which stretches between ...