The active Sakurajima stratovolcano in Kagoshima, Japan, erupted on Sunday, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky.

A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

Japan’s plans to transform the remote uninhabited island of Mageshima into a strategic military hub have hit a wall.

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

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

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

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan.

Japan’s position along the “Ring of Fire”, a string of hundreds of volcanoes and earthquake sites in the Pacific Ocean, makes ...

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its ...