Form expert Brad Waters runs his eye over Saturday’s meeting at Caulfield, finding five horses to follow and some to forgive ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted Tuesday, blanketing the sky with a more than six-mile-high ash cloud and prompting authorities to raise the country’s volcanic alert level. Mount Lewotobi ...

Europe’s most active volcano, Mount Etna, erupted on Monday morning, producing an enormous ash cloud “several kilometers high.” The volcano is located in Sicily, Italy, near the city of Catania.

Sicily's Mount Etna put on a fiery show on Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometres into the air. Although the eruption sent some tourists scrambling, officials said the ...

From grounding airliners to fertilizing distant oceans, volcanic eruptions are known for dramatic effects. Yet one influence has remained elusive: the way ash lofted into the upper atmosphere changes ...

The Sakurajima Volcano spewed a cloud of ash during an eruption in Japan. Dramatic footage shows the volcano sending a towering plume of ash and smoke soaring up to 3,000 metres into the sky on ...

The Kanlaon volcano in the west of the Philippines erupted on Tuesday. An ash cloud over four kilometers high rose from the crater and covered the region with ash. Elon Musk gets devastating news ...

Once airborne, these ash clouds can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles, being pushed by the wind. They can disrupt air travel, harm lungs, and block sunlight.

Ash clouds are made of tiny particles that were lofted into the atmosphere from a volcanic eruption and can have a huge impact, even thousands of miles from the eruption.

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned part of man's brain into glass after super-hot ash cloud A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super ...

Brain of glass Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass Fresh analysis with calorimetry, X-rays, electron microscopy lend support to hotly debated theory.

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