Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

This is the incredible moment when lava erupts from one of the world's ... field crews had collected samples of "frothy, gas-rich pumice" yesterday. This was brought to a laboratory where its ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have carried out an unprecedentedly detailed survey of pumice rafts in the aftermath of the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba volcanic eruption in Japan.

Under the angular pumice they found three rooms of a buried building built directly on top of the cindery gray lava which represented the late Bronze Age surface of the island, laid down by ...

“It will likely move to one in which lava starts spewing out,” he said ... Floating bands of brown pumice were also observed in the surrounding waters. “This is moving from steam eruptions ...