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Volcano near Philippines capital erupts, spewing plume of steam and ash
Thousands of residents are being urged to evacuate, as the Philippines volcanology institute raises the alarm at the Taal volcano to the third level in a five-step warning system.
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Mind-blowing pictures of the solar system's most volcanic worlds
An up-close look at volcanoes in space and how they differ from those on Earth.
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Volcano erupts on Atlantic island; lava threatens some homes
LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Spain (AP) — A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity, prompting authorities to speed up evacuations for 1,000 people as lava flows crept toward isolated mountain homes.
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El Salvador to use energy from volcanoes for bitcoin mining
Hours after becoming the first nation to authorise bitcoin as a legal tender, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele instructed a state-owned geothermal electric company to plan to use geothermal energy from the country’s volcanoes for mining for the cryptocurrency.
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The Worst Year to Be Alive in Human History Is Probably Not The One You Think
If someone asked you what the worst year in human history was, what would you guess? 1347 CE was pretty bad. That's the year the Black Death seriously hit Europe. Any of the years of the Holocaust, between 1941 and 1945. Or 1918, the year of the star
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Why the volcano erupting in the Caribbean has such a deadly reputation
La Soufrière on the island of St. Vincent, which last erupted in 1979, has a long and tragic history of powerful but mercurial blasts.
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This is What Happens When You Fly a Drone Into a Volcano
While drones allow photographers to get very close to erupting volcanoes, it's not without risk: the drones don't always emerge unscathed.
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Scientists Are Sizzling Sausages On The Lava From Iceland's Erupting Volcano
Science can be hungry work, and when you’ve spent the day sciencing next to an incredibly hot heap of lava only a fool would turn down the opportunity to cook up some sausages. The sizzle-fest kicked off on Sunday on Geldingadalir, a volcano close to Reykjavik, Iceland, which recently erupted with glorious enthusiasm.
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Mount Etna spews smoke and ash in spectacular new eruption
Etna's at it again - but authorities say it poses no danger to surrounding villages
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Tens of thousands of people living in the Caribbean are on high alert as volcanoes come back to life after remaining dormant for decades
Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to remain alert a Caribbean volcano came back to life. La Soufrière is the highest point in St. Vincent and is located near the northern tip of the country but remained dormant for decades before beginning to spew ash on Tuesday this week, AP reported.
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An enormous supervolcano may be hiding under Alaskan islands
A mysterious, previously undiscovered supervolcano may be lurking beneath Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. A new study suggests a wide crater, created when the supervolcano exploded, connects at least four existing volcanoes. It’s so big that if the supervolcano erupted during the last few thousand years, it could have disrupted civilizations around the world, says John Power, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory. Power presents the findings at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on December 7.
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New drone technology advances volcanic monitoring
Specially-adapted drones, developed by an international team involving scientists from the University of Cambridge, are transforming how we forecast eruptions
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Scientists find intact brain cells in skull of man killed in Vesuvius eruption
The brain cells of a young man who died almost 2,000 years ago in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been found intact by a team of researchers in Italy.
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A New Mass Extinction Event Has Been Discovered, And It Triggered The Rise of Dinosaurs
Huge volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago pumped carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapour into the atmosphere. This series of violent explosions, on what we now know as the west coast of Canada, led to massive global warming.
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Scientists discover volcanoes on Venus are still active
A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland and the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, was published in the journal Nature Geoscience on July 20, 2020.
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There Are Sharks Living in a Volcano, for the Love of God
“Sharkcano” isn’t the latest trashy summer movie with bad special effects. It’s the very real phenomenon of sharks making a home in lava water, and now a Nat Geo special.
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Geologists find evidence of two new supervolcano eruptions at Yellowstone
Their trends suggest that the next eruption won’t happen for a long time
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New research reveals how water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists provide the first conclusive evidence directly linking deep Earth’s water cycle with magmatic productivity and earthquake activity.
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The Mount St. Helens Eruption Was the Volcanic Warning We Needed [Paywall]
It’s been 40 years since the sideways explosion that changed volcanology forever.
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Scientists discover a surprise rumbling beneath a sacred Hawaiian volcano
New research shows that every 7 to 12 minutes, a small, and safe, earthquake occurs beneath the Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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