volcanoes

Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines told to evacuate as volcanoes begin spewing ash

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Get out NOW before Caribbean island explodes: Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines are told to evacuate as volcanoes begin spewing ash after decades lying dormant Alert level in St Vincent and the Grenadines increased people urge to evacuate Raised after it started spewing ash and a new volcanic dome appeared    Volcanoes in  Martinique … Read more

Sleeping Caribbean volcanoes rumble sparking a rare alert for 100,000 people living on the islands

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Sleeping Caribbean volcanoes rumble and smoke sparking a rare alert for 100,000 people who inhabit the chain of islands Volcanoes in  Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are rumbling Officials issued an alert to the more than 100,000 people living on the islands  The most recent warning was issued for La Soufriere volcano in St. … Read more

Seemingly benign volcanoes hold an ‘explosive secret’, scientists say

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Seemingly benign volcanoes can be much more violent than previously feared due to volatile magma hidden deep below the surface, a study shows. Scientists studied volcanoes on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador.  Volcanoes that reliably produce small lava eruptions of basalt, an igneous rock, hide chemically … Read more

Terrifying book reveals how half a billion people live close to active volcanoes

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NATURE Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager (University of Chicago Press £20, 272 pp)    Are we in the right mood just now for reading about natural disasters? Actually, it’s when you think things can’t get any worse that a book explaining just how much worse they can get is genuinely bracing, like a cold-water swim on … Read more

With rainforests, mountains and volcanoes, a holiday on Ecuador’s equator is halfway to paradise 

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‘Ecuador ama la vida’ reads the enormous sign built out of rocks at the peak of the Casitgua Mountain at the southern end of Quito, the country’s capital city. Ecuador loves life. And indeed it does, for this small but extraordinary South American country is one of the most biodiverse in the world, stretching from … Read more

Meteorologist captures stunning image of ‘ice volcanoes’ erupting on the shore of Lake Michigan

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Meteorologist captures stunning image of ‘ice volcanoes’ erupting on the shore of Lake Michigan where freezing waves are sent shooting into the air Meteorologist spotted ice volcanoes on Sunday at Oval Beach in Saugatuck, Michigan – near Lake Michigan The  cone-shaped mounds of ice form in cold temperatures and with high surfs of at least three … Read more