From natural chaos to wartime blasts and industrial disasters, these are history's most powerful non-nuclear explosions ...

"When [Epi islanders] saw an eruption rising from the ocean off their coast... that was a shock to the people, and so when we ...

The 1980 blast remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history ... “Occasionally, lightning flashes where the cauliflower-textured plume bubbles into the clouds above the volcano ...

They’re irks that are nothing more than a bother, a nuisance, even to a crusty old curmudgeon. But the one that’s right up there on the Richter scale, way beyond irks, the gnarly, ugly one, is racism.

Drawings by Cleo Revier and Clarence Peterson, two Rochester High School students, are among 747 prize-winning student ...

Ominous clouds hovered over a field near Stamford, Texas, on Sunday, May 25, as the National Weather Service issued (NWS) a tornado warning. This footage, taken by Meri Cimbs, captures the gloomy ...

I don’t leave home without ‘em, which is why this week’s column is a travelogue of running the Big Island of Hawaii. Everyone’s somewhat familiar with Hawaii’s Ironman Triathlon in ...

When volcanoes are preparing to erupt, scientists rely on typical signs to warn people living nearby: deformation of the ...

Kīlauea Volcano's latest eruption, dubbed Episode 24, lit up the night sky over Hawaii, lasting roughly 7.5 hours. Both the north and south vents erupted, sending lava fountains soaring over 1,000 ...

Although it may seem like an exaggerated visual effect, lightning during a volcanic eruption is a real and documented phenomenon. It forms when ash particles, rock fragments, and g ...

The explosion was the strongest since 2021, expelling ash, dust, lava and a pyroclastic flow, but no injuries or deaths were ...