"In two sites, we’ve been getting about 200-odd slugs every time." Scientists baffled by sudden resurgence of volcano ...

About 50,000 of these tiny bats will later return to Barker’s Cave in the Undara Volcanic National Park, four hours’ drive or ...

A volcano has erupted in Japan sending a huge ash cloud 16,000ft into the air and launching boulders nearly a mile, with residents warned they may have to evacuate. Sakurajima, a stratovolcano in ...

Thousands of Australian holiday-makers and travellers were caught up in the disruption caused by the volcano. After about four hours of being grounded on the tarmac, all passengers were escorted ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

The Kingdom of Tonga doesn’t often attract global attention, but a violent eruption of an underwater volcano on January 15 has spread shock waves, quite literally, around half the world.

Media reports said that thousands of people were stranded at airports in Indonesia and Australia, but an exact number wasn't given. Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano on the remote ...