Instead of polluting the Earth and its oceans and killing and suffocating the wildlife, why don’t we just dump our trash into volcanoes? Well, it seems logical. They melt even the hardest of substances. If Sauron’s One Ring could not survive the fires of Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings, what chance does everyday ...
New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that the planet could be volcanically active today — making it the only planet in our solar system, other than Earth, with recent eruptions. Dr. Justin Filiberto, the study’s lead ...
New research suggests forces pulling on Earth’s surface as the planet spins may trigger earthquakes and eruptions from volcanoes. Seismic activity and bursts of magma near Italy’s Mount Etna increased when Earth’s rotational axis was furthest from its geographic axis, according to a new study comparing changes in Earth’s rotation to activity at the well-known ...
Greenhouse gas emissions released directly from the movement of volcanic rocks are capable of creating massive global warming effects — a discovery that could transform the way scientists predict climate change, a new study reveals. Scientists’ calculations based on how carbon-based greenhouse gas levels link to movements of magma just below Earth’s surface suggest that ...
Breathing Earth’s breathable atmosphere is the key to life, and a new study suggests that the first burst of oxygen was added by a spate of eruptions from volcanoes brought about by tectonics. The study by geoscientists at Rice University offers a new theory to help explain the appearance of significant concentrations of oxygen in ...
Some of the clearest, most comprehensive images of the top several miles of the Earth’s crust have helped scientists solve the mystery of why Mount St. Helens is located outside the main line of the Cascade Arc of volcanoes. A giant subsurface rock formation some 20-30 miles in diameter, known as the Spirit Lake batholith, ...
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that radical changes of one volcano in southern Japan were the direct result of an erupting volcano 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) away. The observations from the two volcanoes — Aira caldera and Kirishima — show that the two were connected through a common subterranean magma source in the ...
UTA researcher Naomi Cleghorn has participated in a Nature paper that describes how humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba volcanic eruption about 74,000 years ago, which created a decades-long volcanic winter. Cleghorn, a UTA associate professor of sociology and anthropology, said: “We have demonstrated that in two sites along the south coast of South Africa that ...
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