Of those who died in the December 9 eruption on New Zealand's White Island, 19 had been on-board the Ovations of the Seas cruise ship and booked to tour the island with Royal Caribbean.

Stephanie Browitt, 23, from Melbourne, was touring touring New Zealand with her family as passengers on board the Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas cruiseliner.

Excessive and sustained rainfall triggered 2018 Kīlauea volcano eruption by softening the volcanic rock, which breaks more easily under pressure from magma, according to a new study.

Impressive footage shows an explosion of blue foam spilling out into the back yard of the home of two Youtube personalities who wanted to undertake the 'elephant's toothpaste' experiment.

NASA has shared a photo of a mysterious hole on the side of one of Mars's largest volcanoes, an example of a 'lava tube' that could be used as the location of human settlements in the future.

NASA shared an image of the Philippines two months after its Taal Volcano erupted -revealing an ash damaged landscape. The area was once a tropical oasis, but now looks more like the moon.

The mystery of the volcano-dwelling snail and its iron shell has been unravelled by scientists after its genome was decoded for the first time.

Using a deviously devised method, Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh is claiming that 75 per cent of Vidarbha farmer suicides are not due to indebtedness at all. Meanwhile, the toll has crossed 250 this year and is rising. Jaideep Hardikar reports.

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