Updates on ongoing activity at Turrialba, Colima, Kliuchevskoi and Eyjafjallajökull along with shots of Sudanese volcanoes from space
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We’re continuing to watch the earthquakes in Iceland, the lava lake is rising at Erta’Ale and a volcano simulator on the web.
Did a subglacial eruption in Alaska change caribou populations, Stimulus help helps update volcano monitoring in the Marianas and the changes to Soufriere Hills since 2007.
The Chilean government has its own ideas about what to do with the relocated town of Chaiten.
A quick programming note: I’ll be off on the Geosciences Fall Field Trip – this year down to the Smokies of southern Tennessee/western North Carolina/northern Georgia – so there won’t […]
Part One of Two I often receive e-mails from my fans who state that my ability to popularize science and technology is reminiscent of the late Carl Sagan; This got […]
Things may be settling down in Iceland, Chilean volcanoes still quiet after the earthquake and views of Chaiten from space.
Yellowstone makes it to the New York Times, Costa Rica defines some hazard zones around the reawakened Turrialba and how to vacation near a volcano.
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.
There are quite a number of volcanoes looking like they might be ready to erupt, from Vanuatu to Alaska.
A brief update on the monitoring of Mayon, more great pictures of volcanoes from space and the news that the Toba eruption might have caused a decade of volcanic winters (but didn’t try to kill all the humans).
Now that I have dispensed with the pleasantries, we can get back to volcanoes! The volcano that many of you have been following is still Sinabung in Indonesia. After a […]
Piles of news from the last week or so including a look back at Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption, shots of Sakurajima and Chaiten from space, mud volcanoes on Mars and tourism in Vanuatu
Magma mixing triggers eruptions at Mt. Hood, lava flows slowing at Kalapana, Taal alert lowered and the plumes of Vanuatu.
Trying to catch up on a pile of news including the latest from Hawai`i, the sulfur dioxide of Nyiragongo, subglacial volcanism in Antarctica and Don Ho’s favorite volcano.
“NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered a whopping 706 candidate planets beyond the solar system,” says Science News. The find nearly doubles the amount of known planets outside our solar system.
According to the Voyager Interstellar Mission Web site, on June 28th of this year, Voyager 2 completed 12,000 days of continuous operation since its launch on August 20th, 1977. Each […]
Eyjafjallajökull’s continues to send ash towards Europe and more on the 30th anniversary of the St. Helens eruptions – including what might come next.
Saudi officials are attributing magma movement at shallow depths for the recent earthquake swarm in the western part of the country. Are we seeing the beginnings of the first volcanic eruption in Saudi Arabia since 1810? UPDATED
Eyjafjallajökull! Popocatépetl! Aucanquilcha! Pululahua! Volcano names abound that would leave most news anchors weep to themselves in the corner. Can you find some more bizarre volcano names?
The eruption in Iceland roars onward, introducing the Volcano Picture of the Week and Kilauea lava flows take a wrong turn.
Facebook and similar social networking sites hold vast potential for reaching non-traditional audiences for science. As the NY Times reports today, Facebook has 25 million users and growing as the […]
Indonesian activity (other than Anak Krakatau), tsunamis threat to Dominica, science versus politics in the Canary Islands and satellite images.
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 […]
The NASA Earth Observatory posted an excellent image today of the erupting volcano Shiveluch on the Kamchatka Peninsula. This isolated part of eastern Russia is one of the most volcanically […]
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In a now famous skit from Saturday Night Live, William Shatner told a room full of Trekkies to “get a life.” Like Shatner, highbrows tend to dismiss fan culture as […]
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.
European airspace begins to reopen as the eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull settle down for the time being.
There are signs that the style of volcanism at Eyjafjallajökull has changed. Meanwhile, ash from the eruption continues to cause problems and has reached eastern North America.