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Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser laid dormant for more than three years before reawakening in 2018 and has since erupted 129 times – sparking concern that it could lead to the volcanic ‘big one.’ A team from the University of California – Berkeley took up the task of uncovering the truth beneath the world’s tallest … Read more
Clash of nature’s titans: Astonishing moment volcanic ash cloud is blasted by a bolt of lightning Sakurajima, an active volcano in Japan, erupted this week with a column of ash rising into the night sky A lightning storm appeared above the crater in a spellbinding but poorly-understood volcanic phenomenon Scientists believe the lightning may be … Read more
Cluster of six Alaskan volcanic islands may be an interconnected giant volcano that is similar to the Yellowstone Caldera with previous eruptions more powerful than Mount St. Helen in 1980, study reveals The Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska is made of six volcanic islands Experts now suggest they interconnect to make a single, … Read more
Lava crystals that erupted from volcanoes more than half a century ago can reveal secrets about when they may next erupt, a new study claims. US scientists analysed crystals formed inside a type of porous rock that burst from the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii in 1959. The crystals had an odd shape that, along with computer … 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
Death from above! Face of Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ symbol ‘the Elegant Skull’ appears in volcanic ash cloud weeks before the annual festival Ash in a picture of a volcanic eruption has been likened to The Elegant Skull La Calavera Catrina is the unofficial face of Mexico’s ‘Day of the Dead’ festival The picture of the Popocatepetl volcano … Read more
Priti Patel ‘looked at sending asylum seekers thousands of miles from the UK to tiny volcanic islands in the South Atlantic while their cases were considered’ Ms Patel abandoned the plan after instructing officials to drill down into logistics St Helena island was also touted as a potential site for the processing facility Labour said … Read more
Millions of chunks from a giant pumice ‘island’ that, this time last year, was twice the size of Manhattan have started washing ashore in eastern Australia. Researches traced the rocks’ origin to an underwater volcano that erupted near the Tongan island of Vava’u in August 2019. The volcanic rocks picked up an array of marine … Read more
Earth cooled rapidly 13,000 years ago and the reason behind this is a series of volcanic eruptions which caused the average global temperature to drop by 3°C, a study claims. It was previously believed that a meteorite impact was responsible, but a new study has found this to be incorrect. Previous theories were based on … Read more
Earth cooled rapidly 13,000 years ago and the reason behind this is a series of volcanic eruptions which caused the average global temperature to drop by 3°C, a study claims. It was previously believed that a meteorite impact was responsible, but a new study has found this to be incorrect. Previous theories were based on … Read more