A Brand New Island Appears in the Pacific Ocean
Home Reef Erupts in the Southwest Pacific Ocean The underwater volcano has again created a small island. In the southwest Pacific Ocean, a seafloor ridge…
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New Zealand’s Mount Ruapehu Captured in Stunning Image by Space Station Astronaut
A lake at the summit of the volcano provides the main clues to what is happening below. While passing over the North Island of New…
What Really Killed Dinosaurs and Other Life on Earth? Maybe NOT an Asteroid Strike
Dartmouth-led research fortifies link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions. What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period?…
The Earth’s Newest Secret: Fundamental Changes to What We Know About How Volcanoes Work
Recent discoveries from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall eruptions alter what we know about how volcanoes work. Learning something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world doesn’t…
Risk of a Catastrophic Volcano Eruption Is Startlingly High – And the World Is “Woefully Unprepared”
Experts say that the risk of a catastrophic eruption is “a roll of the dice”. According to experts from the University of Birmingham and the…
A Global Tsunami: How Did the Tonga Tsunami Jump From Ocean to Ocean?
Scientists explain an unusual tsunami. A new study published in the journal Nature describes the process that produced and propagated an unusual tsunami following the catastrophic…
Massive Tonga Volcano Eruption Blasted Enough Water To Fill 58,000 Olympic-Size Swimming Pools Into Stratosphere
The unprecedented amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up warming Earth’s surface temporarily. On…
Powerful Tonga Volcano Eruption Triggered Atmospheric Gravity Waves That Reached the Edge of Space
The eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in January 2022 was unique in observed science, creating waves that reverberated around the earth and reached 100 km…
Explosive New Tectonic Discovery May Help Explain Location of Silver and Gold Ore Deposits
Magma Beneath Tectonic Collision Zones Is Wetter Than Previously Thought New research findings may help explain how Earth’s crust forms, the location of ore deposits,…
New Understanding of Earth’s Architecture: Updated Maps of Tectonic Plates
New models that show how the continents were assembled are providing fresh insights into the history of the Earth and will help provide a better…
Fire and Ice in Kamchatka: Stratovolcano in Russia’s Far East Ejects Towering Plume
Bezymianny, a stratovolcano in Russia’s Far East, ejected a towering plume that streaked the snow with dark ash. A stratovolcano, also known as a composite…
As Big as It Gets: Massive Hunga Volcano Eruption Comparable to Krakatoa
The January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga was the largest volcanic eruption in the 21st century, and the largest recorded since the…
Bringing Magma From Deep Underground Up to Our Feet – Just Add CO2
Mount Erebus, Antarctica’s only active volcano, shows how CO2 allows volcanoes to form persistent lava lakes at the surface. Antarctica has long been a land…
Sharkcano! – NASA Satellite Catches Submarine Eruption of Kavachi Volcano
Kavachi Volcano in the Southwest Pacific Solomon Islands—where hammerhead sharks prowl—has entered an active phase of eruption. The Solomon Islands’ Kavachi Volcano is one of…
High Resolution Imaging Reveals Puzzling Features Deep in Earth’s Interior
New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed ‘image’ of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary…
Massive Hunga Volcano Eruption Created an Atmospheric Pulse That Caused an Unusual Tsunami-Like Disturbance
Hunga Volcano Eruption Provides an Explosion of Data The gigantic January 15, 2022, eruption of the Hunga submarine volcano in the South Pacific Ocean devastated…
Kīlauea’s Lava Lake Persists on Hawaiī After Volcano’s Biggest Eruption in at Least 200 Years
Since May 2018, when Kīlauea’s lava lake last drained, the summit crater has filled with water, erupted again, boiled off the water, and refilled with…
NASA ICON Finds Effects of Massive Tonga Volcanic Eruption Reached Space
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted on January 15, 2022, it sent atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves around the world. Now,…
