Modeling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which…
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Click image for full view. In 2008, atmospheric scientist Santiago Gassó authored a study that highlighted abnormally bright trails of clouds around remote peaks in…
Fountain Paint Pot. Credit: National Park Service. Throughout Earth’s long history, volcanic super-eruptions have been some of the most extreme events ever to affect our…
These giant mounds of fossil stromatolites from about 2.5 billion years ago are located in South Africa. For scale, notice a person’s dangling legs at…
Picture of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. Credit: Zorn et al. 2020, Nature – Scientific Reports: DOI 10.1038/s41586-020-2212-1 Researchers create novel 3D models with…
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in 2018 was one of the most destructive in this volcano’s recorded history. Why this happened has remained a…
Lava streaming from an active vent during the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey Scientists suggest rainfall patterns contribute to timing of…
Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that…
Stone tools found at the Dhaba site corresponding with the Toba volcanic super-eruption levels. Pictured here are diagnostic Middle Palaeolithic core types. Credit: Chris Clarkson…
Stock photo of Tungurahua, an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador. South American volcano showing early warning signs of ‘potential collapse,’ research…
This almost cloud-free image of Taal volcano was captured on January 23, 2020, at 02:20 GMT (10:20 local time) by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, and…
This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees east longitude) in the Imdr Regio area of Venus. The…
The evolution of life as depicted in a mural at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The rise of oxygen from a trace…
This is the eruption of the Merapi on May 11, 2018.Credit: Université de Strasbourg/Uppsala University/Technical University of Munich/The University of Leeds/Universitas Gadjah Mada/German Research Center…
A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European ‘year…
Volcanic eruptions and their ash clouds pose a significant hazard to population centers and air travel, especially those that show few to no signs of…
Lava from a fountain on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano flows over a spillway into an established channel in June 2018. (Image courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey)…
This is a picture of Mt. Aso, including locations of eastern and western clusters. Credit: Aso Geopark Promotion Council The threat of explosive volcanic eruptions…
Cardiff University scientists have revealed the true extent of the internal ‘plumbing system’ that drives volcanic activity around the world. An examination of pockets of…