What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Whereas in Pompeii the streets were buried under more than a dozen feet of volcanic ash and pumice, Herculaneum was hit by blazing 'pyroclastic' flows of gas and debris. The remains of the young ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a young man died in the Vesuvius volcanic eruption, scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot cloud of ash.

Chaos continues to ravage eastern DRC as the Rwandan-backed ... At the prison in Goma, the BBC reported that 'among the piles of ash that carpet the prison floor after the fire, there is a tiny ...

AMANI ALIMASI/AFP It has been nearly a month since M23 rebels seized control of Goma, the main city of the eastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Since then ...

Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most ...

Nearly a month ago, M23 rebels captured the regional capital Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the time, one of the worst reported atrocities of the conflict took place ...

Languages: English. Seventy Christians were allegedly decapitated by Islamist extremists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just over a week ago, but the group accused of carrying out ...

Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), its prime minister told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. About 3,000 deaths were reported in Goma ...

Small ash emissions and large steam plumes have been observed at Whakaari/White Island recently. A GNS Science statement said the Volcanic Alert Level remains at 2 and Aviation Colour Code has ...