Volcanos on Mars could still be active, researchers claim, saying that it could mean life on the Red Planet was active within the past 30,000 years. University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Planetary Science Institute discovered unknown volcanic deposits in satellite images of the planet. The team said these images showed evidence … Read more
Volcanos on Mars could still be active, researchers claim, saying that it could mean life on the Red Planet was active within the past 30,000 years. University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Planetary Science Institute discovered unknown volcanic deposits in satellite images of the planet. The team said these images showed evidence … Read more
Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans unleash powerful blasts of energy at a rate high enough to power an entire CONTINENT, study finds Researchers made a mathematical model to understand underwater eruptions Found they spew out vast ash clouds which drive megaplumes of hot air They are powered by huge amounts of energy equivalent to the US’s energy … Read more
New images of Guatemala’s volcanoes capture their otherworldly nature. ‘It felt like I was on the moon,’ Josh Edelson told DailyMail.com. A photographer based in San Francisco, he has taken pictures of wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods. Edelson explained: ‘One of the things I’m passionate about is photographing natural disasters.’ Volcanoes are ‘something I’ve been … Read more
New images of Guatemala’s volcanoes capture their otherworldly nature. ‘It felt like I was on the moon,’ Josh Edelson told DailyMail.com. A photographer based in San Francisco, he has taken pictures of wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods. Edelson explained: ‘One of the things I’m passionate about is photographing natural disasters.’ Volcanoes are ‘something I’ve been … Read more
There are few sights on Earth’s landscapes as awe-inspiring as a volcano – active or dormant. And a new book underscores this, offering ‘a visual celebration of the most impressive, infamous and active volcanoes from all corners of the globe’. Volcano, by Robert J Ford (www.amberbooks.co.uk), takes the reader on an eye-opening photographic tour from … Read more
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
Dormant volcanoes on chain of three Caribbean islands begin to rumble and smoke – as its 100,000 inhabitants prepare for evacuation 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 … Read more
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
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