About 16,000 people have had to flee their ash-covered communities with as many belongings as they could stuff into suitcases and backpacks. However, there have been no reports of anyone being ...

For four days last winter, the water of North Carolina’s Dan River ran black. More than 80,000 tons of toxic coal ash – equal the weight of the Washington Monument aboveground – poured into ...

LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) — An erupting Philippine volcano belched red-hot lava and clouds of ash and debris at least four times Wednesday, prompting the number of displaced villagers to swell ...

Hawaii's Big Island braces for major volcano eruption, prepares for possible evacuation of 2,000. ... and ash plumes could soar as high as 20,000, spread over a 12-mile area.

Alaska braces for ashfall after volcano erupts. ... The ash cloud is expected to reach the Susitna Valley, including Talkeetna, and Willow about 90 miles north of Anchorage.

Panic buying sweeps Alaska as terrified towns brace for massive volcano eruption. Story by Brigid ... it has the potential to blast 50,000 feet of ash skyward, covering the nearby vicinity ...