It’s been over four decades since Greenland lost an ice chunk like the one “born” last week. The ice island – four times the size of Manhattan – calved off […]
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With no clear end in sight for the Eyjafjallajökull ash, airplanes are still grounded across Europe and in Iceland, you can add severe flooding to the ash hazard as well. UPDATED!
The old crater rim, previously buried under snow and ice, was exposed this summer at Mt. Baker. Meanwhile, fumaroles at the summit of Mt. Baker are active as ever – see some videos of the activity!
The Eyjafjallakokull eruption in Iceland added some explosivity to its bag of tricks, but so far it seems to be just steam-driven explosions.
All eyes will be on Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland as it begins to show signs that an eruption might be in the works.
The Guardian has the details on the PR tactic of polar bear photos to (over)dramatize the impacts of global warming, tracing the idea to a 1993 Coca-Cola campaign. Here’s a […]
The “eruption watch” continues at Redoubt … Saturday revealed that things are getting hotter at the summit near the 1989/1990 dome (see picture above that made Redoubt famous in 1989). […]
Irony can be an effective persuasion tool. As pictured on the Drudge Report this morning with the headline: HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF PLANET’ CANCELED BECAUSE OF ICE STORM. The headline […]
The slow extrusion of a new dome continues on Redoubt, but we are getting some new insights into eruption processes in the Aleutians thanks to the activity.
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 […]
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 […]
n This is a print ad for a Dutch brand of ice coffee, the slogan of which is: ‘The Ice Cold Coffee Kick For On the Road’. The drink’s interest […]
The eruption near the ice-capped Eyjafjallajokull continues going strong, but geologists have been able to sample the lavas – and tourists are beginning to flock to the volcano as well.
Bright sunny Wednesday here in Ohio made all the better upon hearing that the miners trapped in the Chilean mine have started to make their way – one by one […]
Some news! Get it while it is hot! Neanderthals and volcanoes: A recent study by Naomi Cleghorn and others that appeared in Current Anthropology lays the blame for the extinction […]
AVO has officially downgraded the status at Redoubt from “Watch” (orange) to “Advisory” (yellow). The seismicity at the volcano has dropped off for the last couple weeks and signs that […]
nn I’ve found a few more details about the ongoing activity at Huila in Colombia, including a video report from the BBC. It seems that the eruption at Huila is […]
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JASON SILVA AND TECHNO-ECOLOGIC SCHOLAR RICHARD DOYLE Richard Doyle also goes by mobius, an indicator of just how important interconnections are to him – and how transformative, […]
“While America’s super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever.” Der Spiegel reports on the rising rich-poor gap in the U.S.
Update 7/2/08: Sounds like the lava flows from Llaima are increasing … or that there are more of them. The lava flows, as mentioned below, pose a threat to melt […]
We have tsunamis in the Mediterranean, mystery sulfur plumes, Taiwanese volcanoes and more in a round up of volcanoes in popular media.
At the end of September, a federal court struck down an Ohio law forbidding companies from labeling dairy products as made from milk that is “rBGH free,” “rBST free,” or […]
What is happening to the neurochemistry of an addict’s brain that makes that person so unable to do without cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamines?
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 […]
All eyes today are on Capitol Hill as former VP Al Gore testifies before Congress on global warming. Bill Broad’s NY Times’ article last week has launched a new narrative […]
Eruptions Word of the Day: Harmonic Tremor and Tornillos. There are few methods that get as much attention in the world of volcanic monitoring than measuring the release of seismic […]
The eruption at Eyjafjallajökull is now producing lava flows that are slowly working their way downslope as well as the strombolian summit explosions.
Eyjafjallajökull seems to be settling into a pattern of small explosions as European airspace reopens – and see a day’s worth of eruption in less than two minutes!
The Ice Storm, Rick Moody’s novel, was published in 1994, set in 1973. One of the things readers who loved the book but were not yet born (or were barely […]
The new lava dome on Redoubt continues to grow, but it might not be long now before it collapses, potentially producing pyroclastic flows, lahars and a big explosion.