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Monitoring Against Another Pompeii
August 6, 2008 — A WiMAX-based connection to the Internet will enable real-time monitoring of potentially dangerous active volcanoes. For effective monitoring of volcanic activity, scientists want to know what is ... > full story -
Explosive Eruption Of Okmok Volcano In Alaska
July 20, 2008 — Okmok Volcano in Alaska continues to produce explosions and ash plumes through a newly created vent and poses hazards to air travel in the area. Scientists are using a combination of seismic and GPS ... > full story -
Mount St. Helens Officially Slumbers -- Alert Level Goes Back To Normal
July 14, 2008 — Scientists say the nearly three and a half years of eruption at Mount St. Helens is over for now and have lowered the volcano alert level from Advisory to Normal and the aviation color code from ... > full story -
Icelandic Volcanoes Help Researchers Understand Potential Effects Of Eruptions
July 14, 2008 — For the first time, researchers have taken a detailed look at what lies beneath all of Iceland's volcanoes -- and found a world far more complex than they ever imagined. They mapped an elaborate maze ... > full story -
Geologists Discover Magma And Carbon Dioxide Combine To Make ‘Soda-Pop’ Eruption
July 8, 2008 — Through an autopsy of an ancient Scandinavian mountain chain, a team geologists found that carbon dioxide can create explosive eruptions when magma encounters calcium carbonate-based rocks. This ... > full story -
Volcano 'Pollution' Solves Mercury Mystery
June 29, 2008 — Scientists have discovered how volatile metals from volcanoes end up in polar ice cores. Researchers had suspected that mercury boils out of hot magma, the big surprise was just how much mercury ... > full story -
Fire Under Arctic Ice: Volcanoes Have Been Blowing Their Tops In The Deep Ocean
June 25, 2008 — Researchers have uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented rock -- known as ... > full story -
Drilling, Not Earthquake, Caused Java Mud Volcano, Report Confirms
June 9, 2008 — A two-year-old mud volcano which is still spewing huge volumes of mud, has displaced more than 30,000 people and caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas ... > full story -
Big Bangs: 'Stirring' Secrets Of Deadly Supervolcanoes Uncovered
May 29, 2008 — Researchers have simulated in the lab the process that can turn ordinary volcanic eruptions into so-called "supervolcanoes." Supervolcanoes are orders of magnitude greater than any volcanic eruption ... > full story -
World's Fastest-Growing Mud Volcano Is Collapsing, Says New Research
May 28, 2008 — The world's fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing and could subside to depths of more than 140 meters with consequences for the surrounding environment, according to new research. As the second ... > full story
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