Discover the 16 most famous volcanoes in the world — from Vesuvius to Kilauea. Learn how they form, where lava flows and ...

Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.

Back in 79 AD, in the Romanian Herculaneum, a volcanic eruption struck the heart of Mount Vesuvius and presumed to have ...

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human behavior and theology.

A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine ...

Sunday, May 30, 1926 was a slow news day. In Washington, President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace, were welcoming the Crown Prince of Sweden and his wife. Prohibition and gangsters were grabbing ...

The plumbing systems of volcanoes are vast and complex. But they aren't consistent, even in the same volcano. A Cornell-led collaboration found very different mechanisms behind two historic eruptions ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii is one of the most well-known events in ancient Roman history – so you’d think that we would know all there is to know about it by now. But in the almost 2000 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Archaeologists at the ancient Roman site of Pompeii have used artificial intelligence for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a victim of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that ...

Today, more than two centuries after the eruption, Tambora offers a new opportunity for reflection and development.