Nicaragua’s Concepcion erupted for the first time since 2007, blanketing nearby villages with ash.
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The NASA Earth Observatory has posted two images of erupting volcanoes this week, so I thought I’d spotlight these systems: Barren Island, India:This image captures the volcano in the Indian […]
Many flights out of Puerto Rico were cancelled today due to ash from Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat.
On this rainy Monday morning … Let’s hop in the Wayback Machine and head to the year 2009. Back in May of that year, we spent a lot of time […]
The Halema`uma`u Crater continues to revive itself after the rockfall that clogged the vent ever-so-briefly earlier this summer.
Thermal images of the dome at Shiveluch, things quieting down at some volcanoes in Indonesia and the alert level is raised at Sakurajima – all this and more in this week’s GVP update.
nnThe latest eruption of Sourfriere was captured from space, and NASA has just released the MODIS picture of the volcano in action. The image (above and linked) was taken 2 […]
Lots of news for your Friday including the latest USGS/Smithsonian volcano report, fewer earthquakes at Yellowstone, satellite images of two active volcanoes and examining the inside of Etna (for all the wrong reasons).
Shankar Vendantam’s story headlined “Climate Fears Are Driving ‘Ecomigration’ Across the Globe” runs on the front page at the Washington Post today. It’s not often that climate change is a […]
Is today’s small explosion at Eyjafjallajökull a sign that the volcano is entering a new phase of activity or is it just a blip in the quiet?
The weekly Smithsonian / USGS Volcano Report brings us news from Indonesia, Philippines, Russia and more.
The current eruption at Shiveluch was captured from space over the weekend.
The NASA Earth Observatory website posted this great image of Redoubt taken from Landsat images in 2000. You can see a few neat things. The main thing I notice is […]
Readers of this blog should find the arguments in Tom Friedman’s column today familiar. On climate change, Friedman argues that it’s time to switch focus from cap and trade to […]
The Eyjafjallajökull continues in its new explosive phase, now disrupting transatlantic air traffic routes.
The ongoing eruption in the Galapagos begins to take its toll on the local wildlife.
New images of Kilauea from space, Soufriere Hills’ pyroclastic flows and lahars and things settling down at Anak Krakatau, all in this week’s USGS/SI volcano update.
The weekly USGS/SI Volcanic Activity Report along with images of the new activity at Soufriere Hills.
Sarychev Peak is now the number “sulfur dioxide” event of 2009, with a plume reaching out eastward over the Pacific. Meanwhile, the ash is causing many an unhappy air traveler over the last few days.
The ash cloud of erupting Mt. Pagan in the Mariana Islands is captured by satellite – how many eruptions did we miss before all the remote sensing of our modern age?
Yesterday, Ezra Klein flagged an excellent idea from progressive think tank The Third Way: why don’t we give taxpayers a receipt for their taxes? As The Third Way’s David Kendall […]
News on the current situation at Gaua in Vanuatu, continuing rumblings in Costa Rica and Russia and more stories of ash, this time from South America.
Soufriere Hills continues to blow its top, while the submarine eruption off Japan shows off to the satellites.
Ash isn’t just a respiratory hazard – it can actually disrupt the power grid as well.
Excavating the Minoan eruption on Santorini, images of Rabaul and a snippet of information about the new signs of life at Gorely in Kamchatka.
We’re almost at the one-year mark for the Chaiten eruption and the volcano doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all.
We’ve found out the winner of 2010 Pliny for volcanic event of the year yesterday, so now let’s look back at the entire year in volcanic activity. It was a […]
Kilauea continues its active summer, the USGS refines the geologic timescale and the new boon in volcano tourism.
If you’re feeling let down by Eyjafjallajökull calming down, you can always check out news of the eruptions going on at Arenal and Rinjani.
Recent data collected by the ESA Venus Express suggest that Venus might have had very recent lava flows.