Climate scientists have detected a striking jump in global temperatures during 2023. September was 1.75°C above Earth's pre-industrial average temperature and a whole half-degree Celsius warmer than the previous hottest ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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Climate change that has occurred over the past 260 million years and brought about mass extinctions of life during these periods was due to massive volcanic eruptions and subsequent environmental crises, concludes a team ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2023
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Volcanic debris from the massive Taupō eruption about 1,800 years ago has been found buried deep in Antarctic ice, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports.
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2023
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All particles that reach the atmosphere cause different chemical reactions. Particles come partly from natural sources such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires, and partly from pollution and emissions. Aerosol researcher ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 9, 2023
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Researchers have discovered a sea's worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau that's now deep in the Earth's crust. Revealed by a 3D seismic image, the water lies two miles under the ocean ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2023
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Volcanic ash is no ordinary dust: It gets injected into the atmosphere, climbs to the stratosphere, impacts climate, powders roadways and clogs jet engines.
Earth Sciences
Oct 4, 2023
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As a child, Alfredo Colato cooked eggs on this southern Italian volcano. Today, he is poised to flee Campi Flegrei, as experts warn earthquakes rocking his hometown could herald an eruption.
Environment
Oct 4, 2023
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Hundreds of small tremors have shaken a densely populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, pushing the government to quickly redraft mass evacuation plans, even though experts don't see an ...
Environment
Oct 3, 2023
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To help resolve the scientific debate over whether it was a giant asteroid or volcanic eruptions that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other species 66 million years ago, Dartmouth researchers tried a new approach—they ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2023
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An international research team, including researchers from GNS Science, has released a study into the potential threat of fires caused by volcanic eruptions. The study investigated how far fires ignited by hot rock projectiles ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 27, 2023
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