A combination of technical ingenuity, scientific risk-taking, and interdisciplinary collaboration has unlocked a record once thought to be lost forever. Reading time 5 minutes The Vesuvius Challenge ...

This video shows the mountainous interior of Moorea, French Polynesia, where steep volcanic peaks rise above dense tropical forest, deep valleys, and small areas of cultivated land. The sharp ridges ...

Geological hotspots are one of the tools we use to work out how continents have moved, because a plume stays roughly fixed while plates slide over it. If a chain can be one branch of a plume that ...

In 2022, the eruption and collapse of an underwater volcano in Tonga caused a devastating tsunami that killed four people, disrupted seafloor ecosystems and damaged critical seafloor ...

Roman writer Pliny the Younger left behind the only firsthand account of Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, a disaster that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder. His ...

Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that volcanic debris posed the major threat, yet many of the victims died from a ...

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein have for years accused two of his closest advisors – his longtime attorney and in-house accountant – of enabling the late financier’s sexual abuse of hundreds of young women ...

On this episode of Enchanted Trails, Grant Tosterud explores the Volcanoes Day Use Area on Albuquerque’s West Mesa. The hike takes you through a landscape shaped by volcanic activity, with several ...

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Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now north-western Wyoming, US. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, ...

In this guide, learn about the Ride A Pet Volcanic Egg, its location, steps to get it, and how to hatch Griffin.