Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, was the scene of the ...

Scientists have made new discoveries about the origins of dinosaurs, suggesting they first emerged in dry, arid regions of ...

Calving, when chunks of ice break off from ice shelves to form icebergs, is common and increasingly influenced by climate change. For extremely large icebergs, this process is typically slow, often ...

Leyna Krow’s newest short story collection, “Sinkhole and Other Inexplicable Voids” delivers on the fabulist elements fans of ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the ...

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

Resilience is often touted as the solution to many crises faced by societies and as an inherent characteristic. However, it is not really a behavioral trait or a universal strategy that reliably works ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

Volcanic eruptions were cataclysmic in centuries past, from the 43 B.C. eruption of a volcano in Alaska that caused failed ...

Violent eruptions continue in Hawaii, sending lava hundreds of feet into the air and spreading glass threads over nearby areas.

Volcanic eruptions shaped the destinies of ancient European societies, leading to dramatic cultural shifts and the emergence of sun worship practices among Neolithic communities. Archaeological ...