While I was out of town last week I got a lot of reading done. One of the books I picked up was the paperback version of Palace Council by […]
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There are few spots in the world where you can see a mid-ocean ridge and the Reykjanes area of Iceland is one of them. Right now, earthquakes are shaking the Reykjanes Ridge, so are we going to see a new Icelandic eruption?
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.
nn This might not be directly related to a volcanic eruption, but it has been picked up by a lot of news sources, so I thought I’d give it a […]
It seemed like events at Soufriere Hills had been heading for a dome collapse for the past few week and sure enough, part of the summit dome collapsed last night, […]
nn nn Kilauea is busy keeping geologists and tourists alike wondering what the volcano will be doing next. The current report on the volcano tells of a new fire fountain at […]
Financier Steven Rattner saved the U.S. auto industry. Or he didn’t. It depends on whom you ask. But either way, without government intervention last year, Rattner says the auto industry […]
In late August 1893, painter Paul Gauguin returned to Paris after spending the previous few years in Tahiti, the Polynesian paradise that propelled his art to a whole new level. […]
New signs of activity at Gaua volcano in Vanuatu that hasn’t erupted in over 20 years.
nn The western Pacific basin is pockmarked with active and extinct volcanoes related to the subduction of the Pacific plate along almost all of its western boundary. An Australian National […]
The Washington Post profiles Barton Seaver today, the chef who put 14th street’s Saint X on the map foodwise and then helped launch the ultra-successful Hook in Georgetown. Seaver is […]
New video footage of an undersea eruption covered here in May and an update on the ongoing activity at Mayon.
The Fernandina eruption appears to be an impressive fissure eruption. Meanwhile, Llaima is still steaming as Chilean geologists worry what might come next. Now updated with satellite images!
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 […]
Is there a coastal area close to your heart? Imagine the water there 23 feet higher than it is now. Sea levels are rising, and it can be painful to […]
It is no wonder that the Government of the Maldives has been talking about buying up a tract of land elsewhere in South Asia to evacuate its people to if global sea levels […]
Piton de la Fournaise put on a brief show last night, producing two lava flows after a small earthquake hit the volcano earlier in the day.
When Maurizio Cattelan unveiled his 30-foot-high sculpture titled L.O.V.E. in front of the Milan Stock Exchange recently, many people were wondering exactly where the love was. The massive hand with […]
The earthquakes at Yellowstone roll on, a river of lava is captured on video at Kilauea and a hazard map for Gran Canaria is released.
China moves to Russia and India takes over Canada. The Swiss get Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi India. And the U.S.? It stays where it is.
According to a new study by scientists at the Astromaterials Research Science Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, “Mud volcanoes themselves are an indicator of a fluid-rich subsurface, and they […]
Activity at Eyjafjallajökull has settled down a little bit and wind patterns have helped get most of the airspace over Europe reopened. However, people are already predicting the “summer of ash”.
The volcano news you might have missed this week including new monitoring equipment on Mt. Saint Helens, vog from space and the cost of the Redoubt eruption starts to be felt.
The Chilean government has its own ideas about what to do with the relocated town of Chaiten.
This poster cleverly plays on the half-remembered geological truth that the Atlantic Ocean, at some distant point in the past, really was a very narrow body of water.
The NY Times’ Andrew Revkin details a study at Nature that finds that in the Caribbean there have been centuries where strong hurricanes occurred frequently even though ocean temperatures were […]
I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to see Superman Returns tonight at the Uptown Theater in Cleveland Park. Here is the scoop, without spoiling the movie: Superman foils […]
We’ve all had well-meaning friends remind us that there are “plenty of other fish in the sea,” but the phrase may not be the most fitting fortune-cookie counsel for breakup-ees […]
Catching up with some of the past week’s news, including new evacuations in Vanuatu, some new research on the destructive force of the Toba eruption and images of Bezymianny from space.