A massive volcanic eruption devastated ancient Japan 7,300 years ago, but new research reveals surprising patterns of human ...

When a massive environmental disaster strikes, do societies simply collapse and disappear? Or do people find a way to adapt, rebuild and recover?

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The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a restless mountain collapsed into the sea in 1792, the impact hurled a towering ...

Population models suggest the Kikai-Akahoya eruption brought severe regional decline alongside continued growth on some northern coastlines. Southern Kyushu was already undergoing demographic and ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous volcanoes such as Etna in Sicily or Yellowstone in ...

Scientists and disaster management officers from across the southwest Pacific have gained hands-on experience in volcano ...

Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J. L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, ...

Let’s agree on an axiom: Any disaster movie – be the disaster raging tornados, towering infernos, off-the-Richter-Scale earthquakes, wildly erumpent volcanoes, marauding aliens, or a plague of killer ...