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

life-threatening Plinian eruptions with little or no warning. Though volcanologists study all types of volcanoes, the latter kind is of greatest concern since it is capable of killing thousands of ...

This story appears in the September 2007 issue of National Geographic magazine. When the first thunderous boom echoed across the plain of Campania, quickly followed by a blistering hail of ...

Focus: Modelling the eruptive behaviour of Popocatépetl volcano to understand relationships between the timescales of pre-eruptive magmatic processes and the dynamics of Popocatépetl’s plumbing system ...