Islands can literally pop out of nowhere if an underwater volcano begins to erupt and recently, just off the coast of Japan, that’s exactly what happened. Experts now say the violent eruption has ...

The new volcano headquarters was established ... The 1914-1915 eruption of Mount Sakurajima in Japan’s southernmost major island of Kyushu spread volcanic ash as far as eastern Japan.

Repeated earthquakes are rattling Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini. The quakes are prompting authorities to dispatch ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a ...

The Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands north of Japan was the culprit ... Photo: Oleg Dirksen The new breakthrough came from William Hutchison, a volcanologist at the ...

scientists traced the eruption to Zavaritskii volcano on the extremely remote island of Simushir, which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War ...

On a remote volcanic island south of Kyushu, Japan’s ambitious plan to build a cutting-edge military airbase has stalled. Mageshima, once a sleepy footnote of wartime history, was supposed to be ...

The alert level for the volcano on the northeastern island of New Britain was downgraded by ... The eruption had prompted Japan to assess the risk of a possible tsunami Monday, but none occurred ...