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Pompeii street and building ruins on sunny day

After Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii’s ruins housed survivors, wanderers, and treasure hunters

a painting showing the lava flows of mount vesuvius

Engineers bring a 250-year-old mechanical painting of Mount Vesuvius to fiery life

By Laura Baisas

Active lava flows spilling out of the Erta Ale volcano in Afar, Ethiopia. Credit: Dr Derek Keir, University of Southampton/ University of Florence

A new ocean is forming in East Africa

Erupting volcano

Earth’s core is leaking gold

A fragment of the black organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum.

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass

An aerial view of the Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon.

Magma chambers found lurking in dormant volcanoes

By Laura Baisas

Pocket gopher emerging from burrow

How a crew of gophers helped Mount St. Helens bounce back

Mount Thielsen with a base of rocks and trees around its side

Extinct volcanoes could hold rare earth elements

By Laura Baisas

red lava rushes into the Pacific Ocean, with smoke and steam rising

Buildup of gas caused Kīlauea to erupt like a stomp-rocket

By Laura Baisas