A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

In a mesmerizing image captured by NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, the summit of Mount Vesuvius, one of the world’s most ...

Mount Vesuvius, the infamous volcano that looms over the Bay of Naples, is a destination that captivates travelers with its ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

Two people were arrested on suspicion of dressing up as firefighters and trying to enter a Palisades fire evacuation zone in their own phony fire truck, authorities said Sunday. Patrolling ...

But by late afternoon, when the flames had spread to more than 8,000 acres, Luna told The Times that he’d started making plans for a large-scale evacuation should one become necessary.

“None of us got a red (mandatory evacuation) alert before we felt ready to leave our houses,” he told CNN Wednesday. “You know, we felt heat and fire and that trumps any alert. So a lot of ...

Trump’s plan to return Denali, the Alaska Native name for North America’s tallest peak, to its earlier name, Mount McKinley, has run into opposition from Alaska lawmakers. Shortly after taking ...

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles ...

criticism of the evacuation alert system has already started to mount. In western Altadena, evacuation orders weren’t issued via wireless alert until “many hours after the fire started,” the ...

US President Donald Trump ordered steps to expedite federal permits in his opening bid to entice American investment and shrink timelines for building critical energy infrastructure. Trump’s ...