For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Lava from Hawaii's most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet Thursday during the latest episode of an ...

Three volcanic islets, the Kameni, or Burnt Ones, grow slowly in the center, steaming gently and oozing brown lava, warming the sea and attracting sharks. The last major eruption of Thera took ...

Before Thera became habitable again ... In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle of volcanic activity that had begun in 1939. Seismic activity played a role ...