Mount Semeru erupted on Wednesday with pyroclastic flows and seismic tremors. Authorities maintain a Level III Alert.

Along with collapsing buildings, flying debris, and stampedes of fleeing residents, various studies have blamed the ...

Following the eruption, one team had an idea to help recover from the devastation: send gophers on a day trip.

While they will have minimal to no effect on the “restiveness” of volcanoes, storms and heavy rainfall may, however, trigger ...

Life in paradise can be hard. Paradise is a Greek word of Persian origin made famous by the Jewish bible: it comes from a mix of very different cultures. The word means a walled garden. The garden ...

Scientists are learning more about how water moves through the Grand Canyon, and how what happens above ground affects what ...

Behind flood and bushfire disasters is a less visible influence: changes in the planet’s water cycle. Rainfall and ...

"The UN estimates that by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer," says Arnold Mathijssen, a ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

Stable isotope analysis suggests that, before Roman aqueducts, residents of the city may have soaked in dirty water ...