Did you know that no one has ever climbed Mount Kailash? Despite being just 6,638 meters (21,778 feet) high, much lower than Everest, the peak remains untouched. Climbers believe that supernatural ...
It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius ... turns out the eruption had somehow ...
The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one unlucky man's brain to turn to glass, a new study suggests.
Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount ...
Unrest continues at Mount Spurr, the closest active volcano to Alaska’s population centers, and scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory are still watching for a possible eruption.
The disaster came as a supervolcano erupted beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. The eruption led to the crushing and melting of the ice shelf, which turned into trillions of gallons of water that ...
Episode 11 of the ongoing eruption has paused after 12 hours and 44 minutes of activity. Lava fountains had reached peak heights of around 600 feet within one to two hours of the eruption’s ...
So far, we have seen 11 eruption episodes at Kilauea Volcano since the first one started on December 23rd, 2024. According to experts at the US Geological Survey, this is a unique situation ...
Zavaritzki’s complex includes several cinder cones, which arise when gas-charged lava splatters and cools in steep mounds. These clusters often form around larger vents, adding layers of material each ...
Even though Mount Rainier has not produced a significant eruption in more than 1,000 years, experts keep a very close eye on it due to its potential to blow at any time, and the widespread ...
Thousands of ‘danger tourists’ have travelled to the slopes of Mount Etna in Italy to witness explosive lava flows and breathtaking ash clouds after its latest eruption. Sicily’s iconic ...