Ashes to ashes: Locals sweep up volcanic rubble after fresh Mount Etna eruption covers their town with debris Etna’s activity intensified earlier today as it spewed lava at 300 metres high with a subsequent rain of ash Residents in the nearby villages including Giarre, Fornazzo and Catania have been left to clear the debris National Institute … Read more
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
A small cluster of volcanic islands in Alaska may be part of a single giant volcano similar to that of the Yellowstone Caldera and others that have had super-eruptions in the past. The group belongs to the Islands of the Four Mountains in the central Aleutians, which consists of six stratovolcanoes named Carlisle, Cleveland, Herbert, … 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
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
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