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This is our best look yet at the solar system's most volcanic object
A massive new report on Jupiter’s moon Io shows that the explosive world is even stranger than anyone expected.
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Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island
Many of us will know what bubbling lakes of lava within volcanoes look like. After all, we've seen them our entire lives in movies and on TV. But that doesn't mean they're common. In fact, only seven lava lakes have been found so far, until now.
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Geologists Discover Largest Underwater Volcano, Explain Weird Hum Heard Around the World
A strange seismic event off the coast of Africa has led scientists to a mighty finding: the discovery of the largest underwater volcanic eruption ever recorded. The eruption also may explain a weird seismic event recorded in November 2018 just off the island of Mayotte, located between Madagascar and Mozambique in the Indian Ocean. Researchers described that event as a seismic hum that circled the world, but no one could figure out what sparked it.
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The volcano that built Bermuda is unlike any other on Earth
Rock samples from the island suggest it’s a strange hybrid that represents a whole new way for the planet to make volcanoes.
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Iron volcanoes may have erupted on metal asteroids
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the asteroid. This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investigation was prompted in part by NASA's plans to launch a probe to...
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Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash
Rocks in China point to a geologically fast melting event 635 million years ago
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A hidden province of volcanoes in West Antarctica may accelerate sea level rise
Hundreds of volcanoes could be hiding beneath almost 2,000 meters of solid Antarctic ice, an area twice the size of Texas, according to data collected by a magnetic sensor on an aircraft of Antarctica’s subglacial topography. If these volcanoes begin to erupt, they could accelerate the human-caused melting of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) …
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New island 'now home to flowers and owls'
The island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai was created after a Pacific volcano erupted in 2014.
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The Lake Laach volcano in Germany is 'recharging' with fresh magma
Above, a pristine blue lake filled with boaters and swimmers. Below, magma bubbles and swells. What sounds like a Hollywood plot is in fact based on new research by geophysicists in Germany.
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Artificial intelligence helps predict volcanic eruptions
Satellites are providing torrents of data about the world’s active volcanoes, but researchers have struggled to turn them into a global prediction of volcanic risks. That may soon change with newly developed algorithms that can automatically tease from that data signals of volcanic risk, raising the prospect that within a couple years scientists could develop a global volcano warning system.
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Iceland volcano and glacier are releasing huge amounts of methane, scientists discover
Huge amounts of methane are being released from a glacier connected to Katla—one of Iceland’s largest and most active volcanoes. Researchers found that up to 41 tonnes of methane is released through meltwater from the Sólheimajökull glacier every day over the summer months. The study, published in Scientific Reports, is the first to show methane is released from glaciers on such a large scale.
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Thousands Flee as Guatemala Volcano Erupts
Almost 4,000 residents leave their homes as the Fuego volcano erupts for the fifth time this year.
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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, "It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year," says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past.
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A Volcanic Eruption on Mars? Nope.
A photograph from a spacecraft orbiting Mars shows a long, white wisp, close to a thousand miles long, spilling out of a giant volcano. Could the volcano, thought to be dormant for some 50 million years, be about to blow? Planetary scientists confidently say no. “It’s just a cloud,” said Eldar Noe Dobrea, a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, which is based in Tucson, Ariz.
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A supervolcano that could destroy humanity is ready to erupt — and NASA is trying to figure out how to contain it
What images go through your mind when you think of the end of the world? Asteroids? Perhaps a world war? Climate change? Or even aliens? Even if some of these things are realistic, there's a much greater threat lurking beneath Earth's surface that could put an end to human civilisation — and very few know about it. According to a report by the BBC, even NASA sees them as one of the greatest natural threats to humanity: supervolcanoes.
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No One Knows the Exact Year of the Largest Volcanic Eruption of Our Age
Scientists are hoping archaeology, carbon dating, and tree rings together can help solve the mystery.
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Before the dinosaurs, a million-year long volcanic eruption destroyed the ozone layer
It's known as the "Great Dying," an extinction event even more powerful than the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It's called the Permian-Triassic extinction event, and it took place 250 million years ago, before dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Scientists previously believed the Permian-Triassic extinction event happened because of a volcanic eruption. And not just any volcanic eruption... the volcanic eruption. Called the "Siberian Flood Basalts," this million-year-long volcanic eruption potentially caused the extinction of up to 96 percent of marine life, along with 70 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species.
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Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo caused in part by Indonesian volcanic eruption
Electrically charged volcanic ash short-circuited Earth’s atmosphere in 1815, causing global poor weather and Napoleon’s defeat, says new research. Historians know that rainy and muddy conditions helped the Allied army defeat the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo. The June 1815 event changed the course of European history. Two months prior, a volcano named Mount Tambora erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, killing 100,000 people and plunging the Earth into a ‘year without a summer’ in 1816.
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Supervolcanoes 101
What are supervolcanoes, and how catastrophic can they be? Learn how supervolcanoes form, where supervolcanoes are located, and how their destructive capabilities can make way for new life.
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The Loudest Sound Ever Heard
When Krakatoa erupted, the sound it made circled the globe not one, but four times. By Aatish Bhatia.
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