The NASA Earth Observatory has posted some great new shots of volcanoes from space, including four volcanoes erupting at once and the latest from the Icelandic eruption.
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Just under two months ago I received the news that I, along with 10 of my co-workers, would be laid off. Unlike most I was OK with this as I […]
New reports of volcanic activity from around the world! Thanks again to Sally Kuhn Sennert for putting together these reports for the Global Volcanism Program. Some highlights: Colombia It was […]
A number of nice images of volcanic plumes have been posted by the NASA Earth Observatory crew – along with some terrestrial images of the plume from Soufriere Hills.
Ash from Soufriere Hills has wreaked havoc on air travel in West Indies and Philippine officials have to remind people that Mayon is still dangerous.
Eruptions readers have pointed out to me that El Reventador, one of the more active volcanoes in the Andes – that also happens to be close to Quito – has […]
A look at “folk volcano monitoring” in the Philippines, Kilauea takes out another piece of the doomed Royal Gardens subdivision and another great images of an active volcano from NASA.
Good morning from a drizzly Ohio! Been a rather quiet news for much volcano news so far – well, that is beyond the reawakening of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia. I […]
NASA captured this great image of the ash plume from Chaiten, which has reached 15-km into the atmosphere. Following this eruption, I’m sure there will be a lot of work […]
News bits from Chaiten, Soufriere Hills, Shiveluch and Alaska legislators wondering if airlines should pay for ash monitoring.
A quickie post, but there were a few things too good to pass up: Twenty Indonesian volcanoes “ready to erupt”: Ralph at the Volcanism Blog has a great new post […]
nn NASA posted a nice image of the ash plume from the current eruption at Kasatochi (Alaska) showing the brown/grey ash mixing with white clouds over the Pacific. Not much […]
Llaima from space, lightning caught at Redoubt and an eruption video to send you to the weekend.
Daryl J. Bem’s experiments on psi caught the world’s attention, as I posted last month, because he used standard psychology-lab methods to gather and analyze his data. Imagine what astronomers […]
Eruptions readers worldwide are reporting flight disruptions due to the activity at Sarychev Peak. UPDATED with more satellite images of the eruption!
We of course have the two robot landers on the surface of Mars (Spirit and Opportunity). The Spirit Rover recently went into hibernation mode and is no longer communicating with […]
Increasing activity at Mayon in the Philippines (UPDATED with video) and Soufriere Hills on Montserrat have prompted evacuations. Also, two new NASA Earth Observatory images of volcanoes in action.
“A small fleet of privately developed spacecraft will head into orbit in the next few years.” Technology Review looks at which companies are most eager to explore the final frontier.
Inside you’ll find a Q&A on Martian volcanoes, some new details on the Ethopian eruption, the innards of Halema`uma`u and Nyiragongo from space.
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 […]
Journalists can’t stay away from the term “supervolcano” (read at your own peril), the eruption in Iceland marches on and Redoubt settles down. UPDATE: Is the Icelandic eruption winding down?
For the first time in sixty years, six volcanoes are erupting out in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
We either have more lava or less lava in the Galapagos, it just depends with who you speak.
With spring comes some clear views of Chaiten in Chile, still going strong after 16 months of erupting.
Commercial space tourism is no longer such a distant dream. Over the next decade or so, we are going to start seeing the development of quite a few interesting relationships […]
Nicaragua’s Concepcion erupted for the first time since 2007, blanketing nearby villages with ash.
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.