A supervolcano is like a regular volcano on steroids. If it erupts, it would kill 100,000 people in an instant. And expel over a thousand times more material than a regular volcano. It would send so ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. This article was ...

Volcanic eruptions are perhaps nature's most terrifying display of power. Catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes like Mount Vesuvius, Krakatoa, and Mount St. Helens have gone down as some of the most ...

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 ...

The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull has erupted for the second time this month, sending a long plume of ash across the north Atlantic into the UK, enough to disrupt air traffic there! NASA's Terra ...

A volcanic eruption has started on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, the third to hit the area since December, authorities said. Live video images showed glowing lava oozing out of a ...

Enormous fountains of fire were rising in front of us, then falling back into the darkness, over and over again. I was sitting in the front seat of a helicopter, a mere insect hovering above the ...

Residents living around the slopes of Mayon volcano are evacuated (AP) Residents living around the slopes of Mayon volcano are evacuated (AP) Thousands of villagers have been evacuated from their ...

A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland, near the capital Reykjavik, following intense earthquake activity in the area. Magma is visible around 30km (19 miles) from the ...

A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in south-western Iceland has spewed lava from a fissure in its seventh eruption since December. The eruption started with little warning at 11.14pm local time on ...

A volcano in Iceland erupted yesterday for the fourth time since December, the country's meteorological office said, spewing smoke and bright orange lava into the air in sharp contrast against the ...