On retirement from public life, Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang found a quiet place on a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, to write about this landscape sacred to the ...

A single underwater cable the size of a garden hose connected Tonga to the outside world—until a natural disaster struck. And ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...

Nine volcanic eruptions since December 2023 have shaken the Icelandic town of Grindavik and forced residents to repeatedly ...

A volcano that has been active in recent years erupted again on Hawaii’s Big Island on Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Located in the coastal town of Grindavik, home to 3,800 people some 50 kilometres southwest of Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, is erupting for a second straight day, spewing towering ...

Gas from the 'zombie' volcano in Iran can be smelled 30 miles away, and it's so pungent that people are talking on social ...

Villagers have been evacuated and flights grounded following a volcano erupted, spewing ash six miles into the air. Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted twice on Wednesday, first at 1:35 a.m.