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Mount Etna streams red-hot lava and sends columns of ash rising more than 3,000ft in spectacular eruption Eruption started on Tuesday afternoon and sent ash billowing 3,000ft high Catania’s airport was closed and emergency services in nearby villages on alert Footage shows smoke glowing red and yellow as it stretches for miles in the sky … Read more
An eruption at Mount Etna sent a violent stream of lava and smoke hundreds of feet into the air above Sicily Sunday night. Volcanic activity was first detected from the southeast crater shortly before 9:30pm local time. The eruption lasted through Monday morning, with a dense ash plume some three miles high and lava fountains … Read more
Huge eruption on the surface of the sun could mean aurora borealis are visible in the UK and US this week – but experts warn of interference with power grids and GPS signals Solar storms happen when particles from the Sun hit the Earth’s magnetic field These charged particles interact with the field and generate … Read more
What happened? Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments, and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow. Mount Vesuvius, on the west coast of Italy, is the only active volcano in continental Europe and is thought to be one of the … Read more
University of Bristol palaeontologist Professor Mike Benton has said that the ancestors of both mammals and birds became warm-blooded at the same time, some 250 million years ago. Around this time, life was recovering from the greatest mass extinction of all time – the Great Dying. The Great Dying mass extinction killed around 90 per cent … Read more
Indonesian volcano Mount Sinanbung spews a mountain of Ash three miles into the air in spectacular eruption Mount Sinabung on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia erupted for the second time in three days on Monday The volcano spewed a giant cloud of hot volcanic ash three miles into the air and turning the sky dark Residents … Read more
New research connects a 12th century volcano eruption in Japan to years of famine in Europe, as volcanic sulfates in the atmosphere contributed to frigid summer days, heavy rainfall and widespread crop failure Researchers found new links between a volcano in Japan and European famine The team identified volcanic sulfates in ice core samples from … Read more
Scientists say a massive volcanic eruption in Alaska more than 2,500 years ago triggered a global climate shock on the other side of the Earth that led to the fall of the Roman Republic. The eruption of Mount Okmok on an Alaskan island in the year 43 BC – an event known as ‘Okmok II’ – … Read more
Volcano in China that was believed to be extinct may now be ‘recharging,’ experts say after discovering chambers filled with molten lava beneath the surface Experts created a 3D map underneath the Wieshan volcano in China The volcano last erupted 500,000 years ago and was said to be extinct Following the analysis, the team found two … Read more
The destruction caused by the cataclysmic Mount St Helens eruption 40 years ago may not be over, experts have warned, as a natural dam created from the explosion’s debris threatens to collapse. In what was one of the largest debris avalanches ever recorded and the worst in US history, 1,300ft of the Washington state mountain, … Read more