A long quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, blasting ash roughly 9 miles into the sky and catching both nearby ...

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers of natural carbon emissions, ...

Does the eruption of Santorini appear in Greek mythology? This depends largely on which group can truly be identified as the ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

As the Maunaulu eruption waned, Kilauea summit inflated and two brief eruptions occurred in the latter half of 1971 — one in ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The idea that a single volcanic eruption might have shaped ...

Saini Samim receives funding from the Melbourne Research Schorship provided by the University of Melbourne. She has also received funding from the Australian Research Council and the Turkana Basin ...

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is central to solving the puzzle of human evolution. Unfortunately, pinning down a ...