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Ash

Bone Buddhas at Isshin-ji Temple

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

The La Soufrière eruption captured by a satellite.

Trying to Understand a Volcano's Jekyll-and-Hyde Eruptions

Volcanologists are doing detective work to understand what makes St. Vincent's La Soufrière go off.

Robin George Andrews April 16, 2021

The gentle, almost soothing aftermath of Krakatoa.

See the Soft Aquarelle Watercolors That Resulted From Krakatoa’s Big Bang

A set of paintings show the calm, lingering aftermath of a world-shaking event.

Isaac Schultz April 13, 2020

The ash fell thick, and some will stick around.

Ash From the Taal Eruption Will Stick Around ‘Pretty Much Forever’

Some ash particles will blow or wash away, but others will get sealed into the sedimentary record.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 15, 2020

Cao Lầu

Authentic renditions of this Vietnamese noodle dish rely on the terroir of a single coastal city.

Tanjia

This meat dish slow-cooks in the embers that heat Moroccan bathhouses.

A view of Crescent Beach from Ecola Point.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Crescent Beach

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

The sand dunes.

Ngorongoro, Tanzania

Shifting Sand Dunes

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Ash can be silky like fine sand, or chunkier, and dark as charcoal.

Making Pottery From the Ashes of the Sonoma Wildfires

A ceramicist is offering people who lost their homes a way to remember—and look to the future.

Jessica Leigh Hester February 14, 2018

Blue corn gives this mush its striking color.

Blue Corn Mush

Adding juniper ash to this traditional Navajo dish gives it as much calcium as a glass of milk.