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Gas Movement A Key To Mount St. Helens Explosions
March 5, 2007 — A study being published this week suggests that gas and vapor movement to the top of the magma body may have caused fairly rapid increases in pressure and could have been the triggering mechanism ... > full story -
Geologists Reveal Secrets Behind Supervolcano Eruption
March 5, 2007 — Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a "supervolcano" that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash fallout ... > full story -
Yellowstone's Quiet Power: A Volcano Forcefully Shapes The Land, Even Between Eruptions
March 1, 2007 — A 17-year University of Utah study of ground movements shows that the power of the huge volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park is much greater than previously thought when the giant ... > full story -
Volcanoes And Nanotechnology: Direct Synthesis Of Carbon Nanotubes With Volcanic Rock
February 6, 2007 — Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers have been used in a wide variety of applications. However, because their production on an industrial scale remains expensive, their ... > full story -
Mud Volcano In Java May Continue To Erupt For Months And Possibly Years
January 23, 2007 — The first scientific report into the causes and impact of Lusi, the Indonesian mud volcano, reveals that the 2006 eruption will continue to erupt and spew out between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres ... > full story -
Regional Nuclear War Could Devastate Global Climate
December 11, 2006 — Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be ... > full story -
Evidence From Hawaiian Volcanoes Shows That Earth Recycles Its Crust
November 29, 2006 — Rutgers University geological sciences professor Claude Herzberg offers new evidence that parts of the Earth's crust that long ago dove hundreds or thousands of kilometers into the Earth's interior ... > full story -
Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8000 Years Ago
November 28, 2006 — Geological evidence indicates that the eastern flanks of Mt. Etna volcano, located on Italy's island of Sicily, suffered at least one large collapse nearly 8,000 years ... > full story -
Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt, Study Shows
November 21, 2006 — An environmental drama played out on the world stage in the late 18th century when a volcano killed 9,000 Icelanders and brought a famine to Egypt that reduced the population of the Nile valley by a ... > full story -
Life In The Extreme: Scientists Examine Harsh Conditions Of Underwater Mud Volcanoes
November 8, 2006 — Extensive fields of hydrocarbon-rich gas seepage, mud volcanoes and pockmarks have all been mapped by the Eurocores program Euromargins. On October 4-6, 2006, scientists from 50 different research ... > full story
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