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From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...
It had been dormant for 800 years, but in March 2021, the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland came to life. While the eruption ...
At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...
Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s ...
Each episode of Halemaumau lava fountaining since the current on-again, off-again eruption began on Dec. 23, 2024, has continued for 13 hours to 8 days, with pauses between episodes lasting from less ...
Kīlauea’s latest eruption episode featured spectacular lava fountains shooting hundreds of feet into the air, but has come to ...
This striking, false-color satellite image shows the intense heat coming from a pair of lava ... photo). In November 2011, a 1,300-foot-tall (400 m) fountain of lava shot out of the erupting ...
Scientists said “episode 18” of Kilauea Volcano’s ongoing eruption restarted at 7:45 a.m. Sunday with lava flows 6 to 10 feet high from the south vent. The lava flow resumed about a half ...
Video from live cameras showed lava bubbling in the west Halemaʻumaʻu crater, within the greater Kilauea volcano. Kilauea remains at an Orange alert on the USGS' alert-level system, meaning an ...
Video from live cameras showed lava bubbling in the west Halemaʻumaʻu crater, within the greater Kilauea volcano. The volcano's last eruption ended just over a week ago, on April 9. Kilauea ...
This week’s photo theme is Unsung Heroes of Kung Fu — we’re shouting out lesser-known legends of kung fu cinema to expand your mind beyond Jackie, Jet, and Bruce. Sammo Hung is a legend, whose hand ...
This frequency has given volcanologists opportunities to study how lava behaves after a volcano erupts. “We try to follow this beast,” says Gro Birkefeldt M. Pedersen, a volcanologist at the ...