Tag: Volcanoes
Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland after weeks of earthquake warnings −...
Lava erupted through a fissure in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Dec. 18, 2023, shooting almost 100 feet (30 meters) in the air...
Volcanic Iceland is rumbling again as magma rises − a geologist...
Jaime Toro, West Virginia University
Thousands of earthquakes in recent weeks have shaken the Icelandic fishing town of Grindavík,...
4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters
Michael Wysession, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours,...
How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as...
Shichun Huang, University of Tennessee
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages....
What are mud volcanoes?
Michael R. Hudec, The University of Texas at Austin
Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a...
Where Mauna Loa’s lava is coming from – and why Hawaii’s...
Gabi Laske, University of California, San Diego
Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains...
Tonga eruption was so intense, it caused the atmosphere to ring...
Kevin Hamilton, University of Hawaii
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption reached an explosive crescendo on Jan. 15, 2022. Its...
What causes a tsunami? An ocean scientist explains the physics of...
Sally Warner, Brandeis University
On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami...
EXPLORING NATURE
3 years after the Marshall Fire: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can...
Colleen E. Reid, University of Colorado Boulder
Three years ago, on Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through...
