Mount Spurr has been showing signs of an eruption since last year, but scientists think one is even more imminent.

Scientists are urging people who live in southcentral Alaska to begin preparing for a possible eruption of the Mount Spurr ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier thousands of years ago.

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

Attendees offered a prayer to 43 victims who died in 1991, and to another person who died in the pyroclastic flows that occurred on June 23, 1993. A pyroclastic flow is a deadly, fast-moving mix ...

They conclude the vitrification was caused by an ash cloud that arrived in Herculaneum before the pyroclastic flows from the volcano. Pyroclastic flows are extremely hot and fast currents of ...

But a 2001 study in Nature, co-authored by Italian archaeologist Pier Paolo Petrone, estimated a temperature of 500° Celsius (932° Fahrenheit) for the pyroclastic surge that destroyed Pompeii ...

The eruption of the 3,676-metre-high volcano happened between 2.38am and 9.27am (local time), with southwesterly winds.

A UCC-based scientist has led an international team to have made a breakthrough discovery in the preservation of fossils.