ROME -- A giant explosion from an Italian volcano sent locals and tourists running for cover on Wednesday. Stromboli, a volcano located on a small island off the coast of Sicily, erupted, sending a ...

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s arrival. Cooling and crop failures across Europe pushed Italian states to ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is on a roll. The active volcano recently had its 36th episode of eruption, and it was quite magnificent. The blazing streams of lava exploded out of the vents for five hours ...

A circular scar on Alaska’s face speaks to an event that may have contributed to the fall of societies on the far side of the world. Two thousand years ago, Alaska’s Mount Okmok volcano spewed ash ...

In the Pacific Northwest, a surge of seismic activity has pushed one underwater volcano into what researchers describe as a very high likelihood of eruption, with some models putting the odds near 95 ...