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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.
Many flights out of Puerto Rico were cancelled today due to ash from Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat.
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 […]
On this rainy Monday morning … Let’s hop in the Wayback Machine and head to the year 2009. Back in May of that year, we spent a lot of time […]
The Halema`uma`u Crater continues to revive itself after the rockfall that clogged the vent ever-so-briefly earlier this summer.
Thermal images of the dome at Shiveluch, things quieting down at some volcanoes in Indonesia and the alert level is raised at Sakurajima – all this and more in this week’s GVP update.
nnThe latest eruption of Sourfriere was captured from space, and NASA has just released the MODIS picture of the volcano in action. The image (above and linked) was taken 2 […]
Lots of news for your Friday including the latest USGS/Smithsonian volcano report, fewer earthquakes at Yellowstone, satellite images of two active volcanoes and examining the inside of Etna (for all the wrong reasons).
Shankar Vendantam’s story headlined “Climate Fears Are Driving ‘Ecomigration’ Across the Globe” runs on the front page at the Washington Post today. It’s not often that climate change is a […]
Is today’s small explosion at Eyjafjallajökull a sign that the volcano is entering a new phase of activity or is it just a blip in the quiet?
The weekly Smithsonian / USGS Volcano Report brings us news from Indonesia, Philippines, Russia and more.
The current eruption at Shiveluch was captured from space over the weekend.
The NASA Earth Observatory website posted this great image of Redoubt taken from Landsat images in 2000. You can see a few neat things. The main thing I notice is […]
Readers of this blog should find the arguments in Tom Friedman’s column today familiar. On climate change, Friedman argues that it’s time to switch focus from cap and trade to […]
The Eyjafjallajökull continues in its new explosive phase, now disrupting transatlantic air traffic routes.
The ongoing eruption in the Galapagos begins to take its toll on the local wildlife.
New images of Kilauea from space, Soufriere Hills’ pyroclastic flows and lahars and things settling down at Anak Krakatau, all in this week’s USGS/SI volcano update.