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Iceland considers water pumping solution to stop lava from threatening town
Icelandic authorities on Wednesday said they were considering pumping water onto any lava that spews out if a volcanic eruption threatens the ... World News -
Mayon Volcano evacuation: Philippines braces for impending eruption
Philippine troops, police and rescue workers began forcibly evacuating residents near Mayon Volcano on Friday as its increasing unrest indicated a ... World News -
Video: Volcano erupts near Iceland’s capital after days of earthquakes
A volcano has erupted near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik after days of rising earthquake activity in the area, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) ... World News -
Why Tonga eruption was so big, how tsunami traveled far, what’s next
People around the world looked on in awe at the spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting in a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific. ... Features -
All homes on one Tonga island destroyed, three dead as government shares first update
All the homes on one of Tonga’s small outer islands have been destroyed in the recent volcanic eruption and tsunami, with three people so far ... World News -
Scientists struggle to monitor Tonga volcano after massive eruption
Scientists are struggling to monitor an active volcano that erupted off the South Pacific island of Tonga over the weekend, after the explosion ... World News -
Tsunami waves hit Tonga following eruption as New Zealand issues national advisory
Large waves crashed ashore in Tonga Saturday after a massive volcanic eruption that was heard in neighboring countries triggered the area’s second ... World News -
Indonesia’s volcano erupts, blankets village in ash
Indonesia’s most active volcano Mount Merapi erupted Monday, belching a cloud of ash into the air as red lava flowed down its crater.The early morning ... World News -
New lava stream flows from Iceland’s volcano near Mount Fagradalsfjall
Iceland’s spectacular, two-week old volcanic eruption entered a new phase Monday as television pictures showed a fresh fissure had opened up and begun ... World News -
Indonesian volcano erupts, unleashing river of lava
Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) down its slopes.It was ... Variety -
Filipinos turn volcano’s ash, plastic trash into bricks
Ash spewed by a Philippine volcano is being mixed with plastic waste to make bricks in an inventive response to the country’s persistent ... Variety -
Philippine residents retrieve pets, belongings amid threat of volcano eruption
Thousands of residents under orders to evacuate from a town near the Philippine volcano Taal were allowed to briefly visit homes on Friday to rescue ... World News -
Danger looms over Taal volcano in Philippines as locals return despite warnings
Nearly 5,000 people are still at risk in the Philippines’ village of Taal, where a volcano recently erupted. Despite warnings from officials, ... World News -
Lava gushes from Philippine volcano as ash spreads to Manila
Red-hot lava gushed out of a Philippine volcano Monday after a sudden eruption of ash and steam that forced villagers to flee and shut down ... World News -
New Zealand police suspend volcano body search
New Zealand police on Tuesday called off the search for two people missing after the White Island volcanic eruption.There were 47 people, mainly ... World News -
Death toll from New Zealand volcano eruption rises to 19
The death toll from a volcanic eruption in New Zealand earlier this month has risen to 19 after police said Monday another person died at an Auckland ... World News -
New Zealand police scale back volcano bodies search
New Zealand police said on Wednesday that the search for two bodies still missing after the White Island volcanic eruption will be reduced in the ... World News -
New Zealand identifies two unfound bodies after volcano eruption
Police said Tuesday that an Australian teenager and a New Zealand tour guide are the two people presumed dead but whose bodies have not been found ... World News -
Toxic air, gases hamper search for last two volcano victims
A second land search of New Zealand's volcanic White Island on Sunday failed to locate the bodies of the last two victims of an eruption that claimed ... World News -
New Zealand divers attempt to recover last 2 volcano victims
Police divers returned to the waters around New Zealand's volcanic White Island at dawn Saturday to search for the remaining two victims of an ... World News -
NZ police to start search for 8 bodies on volcano island on Friday
Recovery teams in New Zealand will set out shortly after first light on Friday to search for bodies of eight people who died during a volcanic ... World News -
New Zealand hospitals order skin to treat volcano survivors
New Zealand medical staff were working around the clock Thursday treating severely burned survivors of a volcanic eruption that police said was ... World News -
New Zealand police confirm five dead in volcanic eruption
At least five people have been killed after a volcano erupted Monday on a small New Zealand island frequented by tourists, with a number of people ... World News -
Eight missing in New Zealand volcano eruption that killed five: Police
Eight people were still missing after a volcanic eruption in New Zealand that killed five people, and there are no indications they survived the ... World News -
Volcano erupts on Satsumaio island in southeast Japan
A volcano erupted on Satsumaio island in southeastern Japan late Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, but there were no immediate reports ... World News -
Residents flee after Papua New Guinea volcano erupts
Papua New Guinea’s volatile Ulawun volcano erupted early Tuesday, sending a column of red lava shooting up into the sky and forcing the ... World News -
Volcano near Tokyo erupts, prompting warnings
A volcano near Tokyo has erupted for the first time in four years, throwing ash and smoke nearly two kilometers into the sky and sparking warnings not ... World News -
Indonesian volcano erupts near third-biggest city
A volcano erupted near Indonesia's third-biggest city of Bandung on Friday, sending ash several hundred metres into the air and triggering warnings ... World News -
Italy’s Mount Etna sparks into life
Mount Etna in southern Italy has burst into life, spitting molten lava high into the sky, though cloud cover Saturday ruined the view for those brave ... Travel and Tourism -
IN PICTURES: At least 281 killed, hundreds injured in Indonesia tsunami
A tsunami apparently caused by the eruption of an island volcano killed at least 281 people around Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, sending a wall of ... World News