Nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San Francisco, the volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only discovered its existence in the 1980s.

On Vices was written by a by Philodemus, a Greek philosopher who lived at Pompeii nearly 200 years before its eruption.

Stanford researchers linked Campi Flegrei’s earthquakes to groundwater pressure, not magma. Managing water flow could reduce ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door ...

A new study has determined that a rapidly advancing cloud of gas from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius overtook a person ... | Earth And The Environment ...

A new Pompeii excavation revealed details about family members who barricaded themselves with a bed during the Mt. Vesuvius ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...