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The weekly USGS/SI Volcanic Activity Report along with images of the new activity at Soufriere Hills.

Sarychev Peak is now the number “sulfur dioxide” event of 2009, with a plume reaching out eastward over the Pacific. Meanwhile, the ash is causing many an unhappy air traveler over the last few days.

The ash cloud of erupting Mt. Pagan in the Mariana Islands is captured by satellite – how many eruptions did we miss before all the remote sensing of our modern age?

Yesterday, Ezra Klein flagged an excellent idea from progressive think tank The Third Way: why don’t we give taxpayers a receipt for their taxes? As The Third Way’s David Kendall […]

News on the current situation at Gaua in Vanuatu, continuing rumblings in Costa Rica and Russia and more stories of ash, this time from South America.

Soufriere Hills continues to blow its top, while the submarine eruption off Japan shows off to the satellites.

Ash isn’t just a respiratory hazard – it can actually disrupt the power grid as well.

Excavating the Minoan eruption on Santorini, images of Rabaul and a snippet of information about the new signs of life at Gorely in Kamchatka.

We’re almost at the one-year mark for the Chaiten eruption and the volcano doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all.

Kilauea continues its active summer, the USGS refines the geologic timescale and the new boon in volcano tourism.

If you’re feeling let down by Eyjafjallajökull calming down, you can always check out news of the eruptions going on at Arenal and Rinjani.

Recent data collected by the ESA Venus Express suggest that Venus might have had very recent lava flows.

As the earthquakes keep coming, Yellowstone keeps everyone’s attention. Meanwhile, Turrialba in Costa Rica is prompting more evacuations. UPDATED And now Turrialba has a webcam!

The eruption at Sarychev Peak in Russia has already begun to divert and delay flights from North America to Asia and the extent of the eruption is unclear.

Bits of volcanic news, including a great image of the eruption at Shiveluch, evacuations related to the earthquakes in Saudi Arabia and the hazards of lake overturn (oh yes, and indie rock).

Kilauea can explode big time, life and the active volcano, the town of Chaiten one year on and more Indonesian volcanoes!

The Fernandina eruption appears to be an impressive fissure eruption. Meanwhile, Llaima is still steaming as Chilean geologists worry what might come next. Now updated with satellite images!

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 […]

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, […]

A series of “usual and violent” explosions at Guatemala’s Santiaguito dome has prompted authorities to raise the alert level to the second highest level.

Tourists are creeping ever closer to the Eyjafjallajokull-Fimmvörduháls (at their own peril) and rumors of an eruption at Taal in the Philippines prove to be false.

Busy weekend in volcanoes, with Galeras heading towards a potential eruption, a new dome at Mayon, spectacular ocean entries in Hawai’i and images of Sakurajima’s ash plume.

There are a lot of signs of an impending eruption at Nevado del Huila in Colombia and we are approaching the 24th anniversary of one of the worst volcano disasters of the 20th century.

Every once in a while, the Astronomy Picture of the Day throws in a volcano with all the space imagery. July 13’s image was one of the best. Plus, oil production will resume next month in the Cook Inlet, Alaska.

At The Yale Climate Forum, Lisa Palmer contributes a very useful feature reviewing various strategies for how scientists can write effective newspaper op-eds on climate change. Most of the first […]

Apple carved its way as a formidable innovator in everything from UI design to the app economy. Now, they’re taking the lead on materials innovation. The company recently acquired an […]

Lots of great shots of volcanoes from space and North Korea’s potentially restless giant.

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 busy week of volcanic eruptions continue, this time with Bezymianny joining in. Also, updates on the ongoing eruption and evacuations near Mayon.

With the Supreme Court deciding yesterday to hear a case challenging the Bush administration’s enforcement of the Clean Air Act (Times coverage here, Post here), the Center for American Progress […]