Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral ...
Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...
If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...
ONE of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes is showing unsettling new signs of activity. Scientists from the National ...
Researchers have identified 138 candidate subglacial volcanoes hidden beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 91 of which had never been recognized before, raising serious questions about what happens ...
It's concerning enough that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica—including the infamous Doomsday Glacier—are melting at an accelerated rate, causing the ocean's great "conveyor belt" to pump the ...
Volcanoes don’t always show their activity through huge explosions or lava rivers. In many cases, the changes are quiet and ...
The recent earthquake swarm near Santorini has brought the topic of volcanoes in Greece back into the spotlight.