Sergio Melendro was among hundreds of children missing after a volcanic eruption devastated Armero, Colombia, in 1985 and his mother Martha Lucia López still searches for him ...

Maria Gladys Primo cannot hold back tears as she recalls the night of November 13, 1985, when she last saw her two young ...

Police officer Edwin Sepulveda touches his pregnant bride, Sandra Morales, on the stomach during a group wedding for 39 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The coalition points to the Philippines’ own Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) as a cautionary tale. A $2.3 billion debt ...

Can using explosives to divert volcanic destruction actually work? The first try in Hawaii set the stage for more attempts, but conditions for success are extremely rare. An aerial view shows a bomb ...

The massive Olympus Mons volcano on Mars—one of the solar system’s highest peaks—may have towered above a Martian ocean in the distant past, a new study suggests. The research identifies an escarpment ...

An east London council is calling on the government to introduce registers of contaminated sites across the country as it battles a contaminated landfill site that is perennially on fire. The Arnolds ...

Volcanic gases led to an abrupt rise in global warming that decimated crurotarsans, creatures closely related to today's crocodiles, according to a study led by Brown University paleobiologist Jessica ...