June 12, 2013
Droning on for science
Amid rolling green pastureland dotted with livestock and the occasional cluster of trees, Costa Rica’s imposing Volcán Turrialba rises 600 meters …
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April 15, 2013
Down to Earth With: The Lava Cap Winery
During a long career at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of California at Berkeley, paleontologist David Jones, who died in …
August 17, 2012
The Syracuse University lava experiments
Pouring Lava Melting a batch of the ancient basalt takes about four hours, but we hold the lava above its melting point for much longer to ensure …
August 17, 2012
Do–it–yourself lava flows: Science, art and education in the Syracuse University Lava Project
Picture this: You’re walking across the tree-lined quad of Syracuse University, amid brick and stone buildings, when you happen upon a crowd of …
May 16, 2012
Kilauea's Explosive Past - and Future
“Namakeha and some other chiefs in the train of Kamehameha, went with soldiers to Ka’u [on the southern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii], to …
March 16, 2012
Danger in paradise: The hidden hazards of volcano geotourism
In November 2000, rangers at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park made a gruesome discovery. The bodies of a man and a woman, in an advanced state of …
February 25, 2012
AAG: Eruption of El Salvador's Ilopango explains A.D. 536 cooling
El Salvador’s Lake Ilopango, near the capital city of San Salvador, is known for boating, diving and the rugged, scenic beauty of its 100 …
January 20, 2012
Voices: Volcanoes everywhere ... is there a link?
It may seem that there has been an unusual amount of volcanic activity lately, with major eruptions occurring in Iceland, Guatemala and Ecuador. …
January 20, 2012
Voices: Dead or alive ... or neither? Why a dormant volcano is not a dead one
Quite a lot of volcanic activity has been reaching the news lately — Sinabung in northern Sumatra, a possible eruption in the Congo and another …
January 20, 2012
Comment: Volcanic versus anthropogenic carbon dioxide: The missing science
“Volcanoes add far more carbon dioxide to the oceans and atmosphere than humans.” So says geologist Ian Plimer of the University of Adelaide in …
January 5, 2012
USGS fights false Yellowstone warning
Blogging on EARTH Unsubstantial warnings don’t fly with the U.S. Geological Survey. Following the recent swarms of earthquakes at Yellowstone, …
January 5, 2012
Undersea volcano erupts near Tonga
Blogging on EARTH One of Tonga's submarine volcanoes is awake again, sending spectacular plumes of smoke, ash and steam high into the sky. MSNBC …
January 5, 2012
Tsunami kills hundreds in Indonesia
Updated on Oct. 28, 2010: The death toll has continued to rise from the natural disasters that struck Indonesia Monday and Tuesday. Currently, …
January 5, 2012
Travels in Geology: Taking in Hawaii's Big Island
For a bit of money, visitors to Hawaii can indulge their touristy impulses with a single night of mai tais and luaus. But take on Hawaii’s …
January 5, 2012
Travels in Geology: Lassen Volcanic National Park: A volcanic wonderland
For breathtaking volcanic scenery, few places have the variety found in Lassen Volcanic National Park in the Cascade Range of Northern …
January 5, 2012
Travels in Geology: Climbing Mount Shasta
As we neared the top of the West Face of Mount Shasta, my calf muscles felt like they were pulling apart, stretching to the breaking point. My …
January 5, 2012
Tracking Yellowstone's Activity
New technologies track the feverish supervolcano in real time This story has been modified since it was originally published in EARTH. Over the …
January 5, 2012
Tracking volcanic ash: Helping airplanes avoid catastrophe
For more than 9,000 years, Chaitén volcano quietly towered 1,122 meters over southern Chile. The volcano seemed almost asleep: Its wide crater, …
January 5, 2012
The trailblazers
Volcanologists have long been assessing the impacts of volcanic ash and gases on the environment and human health. This effort began in earnest …
January 5, 2012
Swarm of earthquakes rattles Yellowstone
An abnormally high number of earthquakes has shaken up Yellowstone National Park in the past week. Since Friday, a “swarm” of more than 250 …
January 5, 2012
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Two hundred years ago, a sea captain was sailing in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, when he observed …
January 5, 2012
Scientists assess Redoubt's fury
After a series of five explosive eruptions from Sunday night through Monday morning, Alaska's Redoubt volcano quieted for about 15 hours Monday …
January 5, 2012
Report from Ground Zero
How geoscientists aid in the aftermath of environmental disasters People around the world remember when they first learned of the attacks on New …
January 5, 2012
Pacific Northwest earthquake threat heightened?
At any given time, a massive earthquake could strike the coast of the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, the site of the …