Authorities have declared the highest alert level on the island of Halmahera in Indonesia. Several villages have been ...

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 ...

This is the spectacular moment the Mount Ibu volcano erupted, sending a towering column of ash skywards in Indonesia today.

Thousands of islanders are set to be evacuated after a volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia, spewing a towering column of ...

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 ...

There has been no significant impact on air quality in the country due to the eruptions at Mount Sinabung volcano in north Sumatra, said the Department of Environment (DOE). Selangor, Malacca and ...

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Since 1997, scientists have kept a careful eye on it using instruments that measure pressure on the ocean floor. Data shows that the volcano has been swelling, with changing rates that hint at an ...

The evacuations come after steam eruptions have been seen since Thursday from the long-dormant volcano of Mount Dofen, raising fears of a volcanic eruption that could put many people at risk.

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 ...

Thousands of civilians in northeastern Ethiopia are being evacuated following signs of potentially hazardous volcanic activity at Mount Dofen, local officials announced. The evacuations were prompted ...

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s ... one of the most powerful of the 19th century, alongside Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1815) and Cosegüina in Nicaragua ...