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The Greek tourist island of Santorini on Tuesday said fears of a volcanic eruption after a magma buildup recorded by scientists last year were unfounded as geological activity had returned to normal. http://phys.org/news266583897.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:05:10 EST news266583897 (Phys.org)—When someone says "Once in a Blue Moon," you know what they mean:  Rare, seldom, even absurd. http://phys.org/news265532749.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:06:06 EST news265532749 Modern humans were likely a greater threat to the Neanderthals than major natural events like extreme cold weather or volcanoes, according to British-led research released on Monday. http://phys.org/news262280117.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:35:27 EST news262280117 How much ash will be injected into the atmosphere during Earth's next volcanic eruption? Recent eruptions have demonstrated our continued vulnerability to ash dispersal, which can disrupt the aviation industry and cause billions of dollars in economic loss. Scientists widely believe that volcanic particle size is determined by the initial fragmentation process, when bubbly magma deep in the volcano changes into gas-particle flows. http://phys.org/news262259575.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:53:08 EST news262259575 (Phys.org) -- A volcanic eruption around 579 million years ago buried a 'nursery' of the earliest-known animals under a Pompeii-like deluge of ash, preserving them as fossils in rocks in Newfoundland, new research suggests. http://phys.org/news260172546.html Other Sciences Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:00:01 EST news260172546 Three years after a quake devastated L'Aquila, the Italian town has launched a bid to become a hi-tech European city -- to the scepticism of thousands of people still living in temporary housing. http://phys.org/news252723772.html Technology Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:03:05 EST news252723772 Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers, who compared tree-ring temperature reconstructions with model simulations of past temperature changes. http://phys.org/news247668656.html Space & Earth Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:00:03 EST news247668656 Looking for some new lake-front property? Here’s the newest available on the planet. Volcanic activity in the Red Sea that started in mid-December has created what looks like a new island. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured a high-resolution, natural-color image on December 23, 2011 showing an apparent island where previously there was none. Here, a thick plume of volcanic ash still rises from the new island. http://phys.org/news244271429.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:20:01 EST news244271429 (AP) -- If Iceland's air-traffic paralyzing volcanic eruption last year seemed catastrophic, just wait for the sequel. That's what some experts are saying as they nervously watch rumblings beneath a much more powerful Icelandic volcano - Katla - which could spew an ash cloud dwarfing the 2010 eruption that cost airlines $2 billion and drove home how vulnerable modern society is to the whims of nature. http://phys.org/news237712943.html Space & Earth Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:22:31 EST news237712943 A University of Colorado Boulder-led team excavating a Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has unexpectedly hit an ancient white road that appears to lead to and from the town, which was frozen in time by a blanket of ash. http://phys.org/news237050108.html Other Sciences Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:15:23 EST news237050108 Volcanologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of Tenerife. http://phys.org/news236779042.html Space & Earth Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:00:01 EST news236779042 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Leeds shows that a large-scale volcanic eruption in southern Iceland, similar to the Laki eruption in 1783, could result in widespread air pollution across Europe. http://phys.org/news235758464.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:28:15 EST news235758464 The recent volcanic eruptions in Iceland upset airline bosses and caused a lot of fuss, but they were trivial by comparison with what could happen next, according to Clive Oppenheimer's new book. http://phys.org/news227180419.html Space & Earth Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:40:41 EST news227180419 (AP) -- Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled all domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air. http://phys.org/news225286069.html Space & Earth Sun, 22 May 2011 12:28:22 EST news225286069 Tests have proven a long-held belief that Borneo's rare Sunda clouded leopard is really a different subspecies from its Indonesian relative, according to researchers. http://phys.org/news214987486.html Biology Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:45:19 EST news214987486 An International research team has discovered that seasonal temperatures in Europe, above all in winter, have been affected over the past 500 years by natural factors such as volcanic eruptions and solar activity, and by human activities such as the emission of greenhouse gases. The study, with Spanish involvement, could help us to better understand the dynamics of climate change. http://phys.org/news214655401.html Space & Earth Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:00:07 EST news214655401 (PhysOrg.com) -- New Zealand scientists are playing a key role in developing a new system to give early warning of aviation-endangering volcanic eruptions by detecting the lightning their ash clouds trigger. http://phys.org/news211715727.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:55:41 EST news211715727 Radio transmitters that can withstand temperatures of up to 900 C could soon be dropped into the depths of the earth to provide early warning of a volcanic eruption. http://phys.org/news204176910.html Technology Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:48:56 EST news204176910 Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. http://phys.org/news203080119.html Space & Earth Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:58 EST news203080119 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dinosaurs, along with over half of other species, became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period about 65.5 million years ago, and many scientists believe this was due to a single impact with an asteroid that hit at Chicxulub in the Gulf of Mexico. Now a study published in the Geology journal proposes the impact that produced the Boltysh crater in the Ukraine may also have been involved in the extinctions, and there may have been a shower of asteroids or comets. http://phys.org/news202449869.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:50:02 EST news202449869 Wildfires can wreak widespread havoc and devastation, affecting environmental assets lives, property and livelihoods. Meteorologist Mike Fromm of the Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with several national and international laboratories, is now discovering that changes in the frequency of occurrence and intensity of wildfires has substantial consequences for a variety of important problems including atmospheric change. http://phys.org/news202041319.html Space & Earth Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:35:57 EST news202041319 Scientists studying deep-sea hydrothermal vents have found that larvae travel hundreds of miles to re-colonize these harsh locations after a volcanic eruption. The new study could challenge existing beliefs about how life adapts to extreme environments. http://phys.org/news199988744.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:50:01 EST news199988744 On March 20, Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano woke from its nearly 200-year slumber to change the way the world viewed volcanoes forever. Bringing almost all transatlantic air travel to a halt for the first time in modern history, this volcano reminded humanity of the powers these forces of nature contain - and of our relative inability to understand them. Associate Professor Huiming Bao of LSU's Department of Geology & Geophysics has published research in the journal Nature about massive volcanic eruptions and their atmospheric consequences in the past in North America. http://phys.org/news195921627.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:40:51 EST news195921627 New research reveals that when two parts of the Earth's crust break apart, this does not always cause massive volcanic eruptions. The study, published today in the journal Nature, explains why some parts of the world saw massive volcanic eruptions millions of years ago and others did not. http://phys.org/news195910700.html Space & Earth Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:23 EST news195910700 The chaos caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland April 2010 and the dispersal of its ash cloud across European airspace was a reminder of the tremendous forces of nature that exist below the ground. Not all subterranean heat sources have such sinister power, however. Across Europe, there are plentiful sources of geothermal energy: heat stored in the ground which can be tapped to provide a renewable and inexhaustible energy supply. Using the right technology to access this power at varying depths and temperatures, we can use this heat to reduce our dependence on imported and climate-damaging fossil fuels. http://phys.org/news195467751.html Space & Earth Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:36:23 EST news195467751 Following the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano that spewed huge amounts of ash and grounded numerous flights, more than 50 experts from around the world gathered at a workshop organised by ESA and EUMETSAT to discuss what has been learned and identify future opportunities for volcanic ash monitoring. http://phys.org/news194262593.html Space & Earth Fri, 28 May 2010 10:50:22 EST news194262593 (PhysOrg.com) -- The development of the ash plume from Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull volcano between 17-20 April is tracked in this series of Envisat images. http://phys.org/news191092725.html Space & Earth Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:19:05 EST news191092725 (AP) -- For all the worldwide chaos that Iceland's volcano has already created, it may just be the opening act. http://phys.org/news191003071.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:24:49 EST news191003071 The volcanic eruption that has halted air travel in Europe for days has people turning to online teleconferences to conduct matters from business deals to weddings. http://phys.org/news190919414.html Technology Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:10:42 EST news190919414 NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites fly around the world every day capturing images of weather, ice and land changes. Over the last three days these satellites have provided visible and infrared imagery of the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. http://phys.org/news190916567.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:23:06 EST news190916567