Imagine an eruption lasting not days, but 4 million years. Millions of cubic kilometers of lava bury entire continents, the ...

Even in dire circumstances, people and communities have choices about how best they can adjust, collaborate and forge new ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 It is the volcano’s biggest eruption in more than a year. NBC News More than 30 flights have been cancelled after a trio of volcanic eruptions spewed ash 2.73 ...

The first telegram arrived in Singapore on a Monday, sent from the city of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). "Terrific detonations from Krakatau (volcanic island)," it ...

Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano experienced its biggest eruption of the year this week, spewing clouds of gas and showering ash into the sky, a local official said Friday. The volcano, which roared ...

Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the victims died from a ...