THERE are around 1,500 volcanoes on land which have been active in the last 10,000 years spewing ash into the atmosphere periodically. As about 50 to 60 volcanic eruptions happen each month we’ve ...

MOUNT Kilauea continues to terrorise Hawaii’s Big Island with 17 fissures now open and spewing molten lava and toxic gasses into nearby neighbourhoods. So what type of volcano is Mount Kilauea? And ...

The way a volcano is filled with boiling hot magma can help improve forecasts of how it will next erupt. Scientists working on a Mexican volcano found that the amount of time it recharged with magma ...

Investigating the causes and consequences of volcanoes and featuring case studies from the Canary Islands, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iceland. Below Earth’s surface, in the upper mantle, ...

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Geologists look at rocks in order to understand the earth’s development since its formation It is important that we investigate how Earth’s materials, structures, processes and organisms have changed ...

European Neanderthals may have been wiped out by a catastrophic volcanic eruption over 40,000 years ago, according to new research. A new study says that a massive explosion caused the onset of a ...