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The Eyjafjallajökull eruption has become more explosive over the last day, prompting new closures of airspace over Ireland and the UK.

The ash from the Eyjafjallajökull eruption is prompting new airspace closures over Ireland for Tuesday.

The Mt. Baker Volcano Research Center is a new non-profit that bring together all the research done on the Cascade volcano, along with fostering new research – exactly the sort of collaborative endeavor that is needed in volcanology today.

So let’s now speak about the future. You may have heard about the asteroid Apophis, which is about the size of the Rose Bowl Stadium. It’s said that the large […]

Our stereotype of strip club workers is that they don’t have a lot on the ball. But a new study of UK lap dancers shows they are more educated than the typical Brit.

“Some good may have come out of the astonishing ice loss (in 2007),…the Arctic science community came together to try a new approach to climate science,” writes Alexis Madrigal.

As the eruption continues, the periodic ash disruptions to air travel may be the pattern for Europe over the summer.

As the Eyjafjallajökull eruption continues, the political firestorm that has follows has me asking the naysayers would you have let your mother fly if the sky was potentially full of hazardous ash?

The fallout of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption will likely be far reaching, from the politics of the EU, to climate research, to the future of air travel.

Over at the Columbia Journalism Review, Curtis Brainard offers a must-read interview with the NY Times Andrew Revkin, the environment beat’s most influential reporter. Revkin has been covering the environment […]

One day, quantum computers may replace the standard silicon chips found in all computers around the world. In fact, by 2020 to 2025, transistors will be so small and will […]

A X-Mas GoracleIn an editorial in the latest issue of the journal Climatic Change, Simon Donner argues that scientists need to join with religious leaders in communicating the urgency of […]

Is Ischia a bigger threat than Vesuvius, EU starts to pay back the ash-stricken airlines, tourists get too close to Santiaguito and the eruption at Gaua continues.

Back in the spring of 2006, Time magazine ran the cover at left warning Americans to “Be Worried, Be VERY Worried” about global warming. As I’ve written in different places […]

In case you were wondering, why in an era of extreme media fragmentation, polls show that Republicans rank global warming as less of a priority than flag burning or the […]

Borders are to maps what icing is to cakes. Tracing their course between countries and across continents is a source of great enjoyment for the cartophile, as is contemplating their […]

Previously, I’ve noted the major hole that the IPCC digs itself by releasing its consensus reports on Fridays, only to be lost in the weekend news cycle. Back in February, […]

The number one story that has been dominating the headlines for the past two months is the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama is now dealing with […]

I tackle questions from you, the Eruptions audience. In this mailbag: what makes Chaiten so special, what is the volcanic legacy of the Appalachians and where did all this magma come from anyway?

Imagine watching the sun go down on October 24, and living in complete darkness straight through to when it finally rises again on the 8th of March. Imagine 40 below […]

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker’s research looks at how language exists in our minds, and how it informs the way we create social relationships.

Ever since it achieved unification in 1871, Germany craved colonies as a matter of national pride. But by the late nineteenth century, most of the ‘uncivilised world’ was already carved […]

David Keith, director of the Energy and Environmental Systems Group at the University of Calgary, says geoengineering should be “a central part of how we think about managing climate risk over the next 100 years.”

In an eruption without a single fatality and some of the best response by officials to the eruption, some people are calling for “blame” to be doled out.

Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin might dispute the human contribution to climate change, oppose embryonic stem cell research, and promote creationism, but in other ways she has been an advocate for […]

This crazy scheme would have restored the prehistoric land bridge between the UK and the Continent

The island inspired a Soviet SF novel and movie

Two teams of researchers have confirmed that an asteroid circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter has water ice and organic compounds.

Large swaths of European airspace remains closed due to Eyjafjallajökull eruption – and there is no clear end in sight. UPDATE: Now with chemical composition of the ash!

This rather sinister image is one of the biggest mysteries in the history of western cartography. Most often referred to simply as the Fool’s Cap Map of the World, it […]