A major US city that's home to nearly 300,000 people is bracing for an impending volcanic eruption. Municipality and school district officials have shared details about their preparations.

Alaska’s Mount Spurr volcano continues to show signs of unrest, and that has led to an alert level increase in the city of ...

Numerous small, shallow earthquakes continue to rumble under Alaska's Mount Spurr, prompting fears of an imminent eruption.

Here’s what residents should know to protect their children, pets, homes and vehicles from the ash that scientists say is ...

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She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University and a Ferris Professor at Princeton University. In 2020 she won an Emmy for a FRONTLINE/PBS collaboration “Kids Caught In The Crackdown.” ...

Boston.com readers said the pandemic remains an ever-present threat to public health, despite much of society having moved on ...

N95 respirators get tested in a fit test lab ... The respirator — don’t call it a mask — was sold largely to industrial customers for decades. And that’s again the primary market, now ...

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