For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of ...

Ultimately, residents said they find it hard to believe that the ash and soil from the ... The decision over the fate of the fire waste is proving a political hot-potato. At the start of Thursday ...

He is thought to have been the college's custodian and was killed in his bed, around midnight when he was assumed to be asleep, in the first effects of the eruption as the burning hot ash cloud hit.

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Analysis from the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic at Washington University, released today by Sierra Club and the Iowa Environmental Council ...

All that ash need not go to waste, it can be used to shield against harmful radiation, even from radioactive nuclear waste. It is a practical way to manage and dispose of volcanic waste ...