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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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Every Second Matters: The True Story of the White Island Eruption
Last December, around 100 tourists set out for New Zealand's Whakaari/White Island, where an active volcano has attracted hundreds of thousands of vacationers since the early 1990s. It was supposed to be a routine six-hour tour, including the highlight: a quick hike into the island's otherworldly caldera. Then the volcano exploded. What happened next reveals troubling questions about the risks we're willing to take when lives hang in the balance.
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The Army Bombed a Hawaiian Lava Flow. It Didn’t Work.
It could be tried again if the city of Hilo comes under threat, although many object to such airstrikes.
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Viral tweet spreads misinformation about volcanoes and climate change
In today's world, where even basic facts are being distorted and disputed depending on one's partisan lens, misinformation runs rampant on social media. And there's no topic for which that is truer than the most partisan issue of all in the U.S. today: climate change. This week, a false claim about volcanoes posted on Twitter went viral. The tweet claimed that Tuesday's eruption of Mt. Merapi in Indonesia "spewed more CO2 than every car driven in history. Climate change is natural."
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People survived the Toba supervolcano’s global winter after all
Previous studies suggest volcanic winter caused a population bottleneck 74,000 years ago.
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Is an Aboriginal tale of an ancient volcano the oldest story ever told?
Eruption 37,000 years ago may have sparked a legend about four giants
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Will Taal Volcano Explosively Erupt? Here’s What Scientists Are Watching
The seismic rumblings of the Philippines’ second most active volcano hold clues to what it might do
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Mystery of Weird Hum Heard Around the World Solved
Mysterious seismic hums detected around the world were likely caused by an unusual geologic event — the rumblings of a magma-filled reservoir deep under the Indian Ocean, a new study finds. These odd hums were an unconventional geologic birth announcement. A few months after the sounds rippled around the Earth, a new underwater volcano was born off the coast of the island of Mayotte, located between Madagascar and Mozambique in the Indian Ocean.
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How a volcanic eruption helped create modern Scotland
Eruption-induced cooling likely exacerbated the “Scottish ills” of the late 1690s
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Africa is Splitting in Two, Creating Dozens of Volcanoes
The process of rifting in Africa means that the continent is slowly breaking apart and with that comes lots of volcanoes, some with the potential for massive explosive eruptions.
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This sulfur-spewing Russian volcano is turning sunsets purple
Sunrise and sunset chasers discovered something odd this summer: In rural Colorado and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, Earth’s daily light shows were turning purple. Now, weather balloons probing the stratosphere have traced the mysterious purple light to a volcanic eruption in Russia.
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Volcanologists say archeologists are hogging study of Pompeii all to themselves
Volcanologists and archeologists are clashing over who gets to study the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, and what gets preserved in the excavations.
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