The top 10 included in ACLED's deadliness ranking for 2025 were Ukraine, Sudan, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Myanmar, ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a ...

Then Japan's northern region took a 7.6 mega-quake on December 8, sparking tsunami alerts (later cancelled), injuring at ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...

The eruption lasted for just over 12 hours. Kīlauea spewed more than 3 billion gallons (16 million cubic yards) of lava during this event—enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools. The eruptive ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population ...

At 2 a.m. on July 8, 2025, instruments across Washington State picked up an unusual signal from Mount Rainier. Over the following weeks, the volcano generated 10,834 small earthquakes, the largest ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

Mississippi has been ranked as the deadliest state for driving during the Thanksgiving holiday, according to a new study. Thanksgiving is not only one of the busiest travel periods of the year in the ...

A volcano in Ethiopia's northeastern region erupted for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, sending thick plumes of smoke up to nine miles into the sky, the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre ...

When people think about deadly animals, their minds usually go straight to teeth and claws. But throughout North America, fatal encounters often stem from reasons that go beyond the usual teeth and ...