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

This is the spectacular moment Mount Lewotobi spewed ash and lava as it erupted in Indonesia. Footage shows the volcano gushing bright orange molten material that scorched its slopes on Flores Island ...

Over the past two decades, it has evolved into China's most comprehensively equipped volcanic monitoring facility. The ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano put on a dramatic display Sunday night, shooting lava fountains over 1,000 feet into the air. The ...