Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans unleash powerful blasts of energy at a rate high enough to power an entire CONTINENT, study finds Researchers made a mathematical model to understand underwater eruptions Found they spew out vast ash clouds which drive megaplumes of hot air They are powered by huge amounts of energy equivalent to the US’s energy … Read more
New images of Guatemala’s volcanoes capture their otherworldly nature. ‘It felt like I was on the moon,’ Josh Edelson told DailyMail.com. A photographer based in San Francisco, he has taken pictures of wildfires, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods. Edelson explained: ‘One of the things I’m passionate about is photographing natural disasters.’ Volcanoes are ‘something I’ve been … Read more
There are few sights on Earth’s landscapes as awe-inspiring as a volcano – active or dormant. And a new book underscores this, offering ‘a visual celebration of the most impressive, infamous and active volcanoes from all corners of the globe’. Volcano, by Robert J Ford (www.amberbooks.co.uk), takes the reader on an eye-opening photographic tour from … Read more
Get out NOW before Caribbean island explodes: Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines are told to evacuate as volcanoes begin spewing ash after decades lying dormant Alert level in St Vincent and the Grenadines increased people urge to evacuate Raised after it started spewing ash and a new volcanic dome appeared Volcanoes in Martinique … Read more
Sleeping Caribbean volcanoes rumble and smoke sparking a rare alert for 100,000 people who inhabit the chain of islands Volcanoes in Martinique and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are rumbling Officials issued an alert to the more than 100,000 people living on the islands The most recent warning was issued for La Soufriere volcano in St. … Read more
Seemingly benign volcanoes can be much more violent than previously feared due to volatile magma hidden deep below the surface, a study shows. Scientists studied volcanoes on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador. Volcanoes that reliably produce small lava eruptions of basalt, an igneous rock, hide chemically … Read more
Global warming caused by volcanoes triggered mass extinction event that wiped out 85% of all marine species on Earth 450 million years ago, scientists claim Scientists have suggested a new explanation for the Late Ordovician extinction Researchers say they heated rocks collected from a stream in southern Scotland The rocks released huge amounts of mercury … Read more
NATURE Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager (University of Chicago Press £20, 272 pp) Are we in the right mood just now for reading about natural disasters? Actually, it’s when you think things can’t get any worse that a book explaining just how much worse they can get is genuinely bracing, like a cold-water swim on … Read more
‘Ecuador ama la vida’ reads the enormous sign built out of rocks at the peak of the Casitgua Mountain at the southern end of Quito, the country’s capital city. Ecuador loves life. And indeed it does, for this small but extraordinary South American country is one of the most biodiverse in the world, stretching from … Read more