Throughout history, volcanic eruptions have had serious consequences for human societies such as cold weather, lack of sun, and low crop yields. In the year 43 BC when a volcano in Alaska spewed large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Panoramic view of Plaza de Armas in Arequipa, Peru at dusk Set in the foothills of the Misti Volcano, the ancient city of Arequipa ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity derived from ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica—have re-contextualized an ancient object ...

The Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption isn't just any old example of Gothic architecture. It screams gothic in striking, volcanic black. Situated in Clermont-Ferrand in France's Auvergne region, It ...

A metate is a grinding stone common to Mesoamerican cultures, past and present. Corn and other grains are ground against the volcanic stone with another stone held in the hand called a manos. Metate ...

After one of the Canary Islands' worst volcanic eruptions in centuries, a community confronts the damage, and rethinks its way of life. When cracks opened in the Cumbre Vieja ridge on La Palma in ...

Soar over Catania, Sicily, a resilient city carved from black volcanic stone and sitting in the permanent shadow of Mount Etna. The drone captures the "Black Baroque" splendor of the Cattedrale di ...