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Popocatepeti awakens: Why Mexico’s massive volcano poses a threat Mother Nature Network The Mexican volcano may not spew forth much lava, but the mudslides it generates have been likened to a ‘wall of cement.’ By Andrea Mustain, OurAmazingPlanetThu, May 03 2012 at 2:04 PM EST POPOCATEPETI STIRS: The Mexican National Center for Disaster … See all stories on this topic » Mother Nature Network

Volcano Watch: Ruy Finch, HVO’s second Director, went to the core of … Hawaii 24/7 (press release) Magnetometer setup in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Gordon Macdonald, HR Joesting, and Ruy Finch inspecting the arrangement in 1951. Photo courtesy of USGS/HVO (Volcano Watch is a weekly article written by scientists at the US Geological Survey’s … See all stories on this topic »

Which Are Gassier, Volcanoes or Humans? KQED Volcanoes erupt because of water vapor dissolved in lava. Volcanoes do release CO 2 , sometimes a great deal of it, but humans have been outdoing nature for a long time. Geoscientists have made many estimates of global volcanic CO 2 production because … See all stories on this topic »

Yellowstone super-volcano could erupt and destroy all of humanity at any … Scrape TV The detonation of that volcano was massive, spreading ash for thousands of kilometres and creating a nuclear winter the world over. Some research even suggests that it nearly killed off our early ancestors, one of our many brushes with extinction over … See all stories on this topic » Scrape TV

Translational Volcanology ScienceCareers.org Scientists, meteorological institutes, and aviation authorities had long recognized the hazards posed by Iceland’s volcanoes; the London Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (London VAAC) had been simulating the spread of ash from a hypothetical eruption of … See all stories on this topic »

Volcanologists for Public Safety ScienceCareers.org As she flew over the erupting Kilauea volcano aboard a small plane fitted with measurement equipment, she “could see lava flows … glowing red on its way down to the sea,”she says. Witham’s journey toward volcanoes started while she was doing a first … See all stories on this topic »

Giant Eruptions from Yellowstone Caldera May Have Taken Millennia Wired News Erik Klemetti is an assistant professor of Geosciences at Denison University. His passion in geology is volcanoes, and he has studied them all over the world. You can follow Erik on Twitter, where you’ll get volcano news and the occasional baseball … See all stories on this topic »

Kirko Bangz, OG Ron C, Delo, Marium Echo & More Launch New Music Houston Press (blog) And Daddy was in the volcano being burned.” This happened while I was at work (I’m usually gone before anyone else wakes up). Wife tried to console him, saying that she’d seen me before I left and that I, in fact, had not fallen into any volcanoes, … See all stories on this topic »

New volcano eruption in the South Sandwich Islands at Mt Curry, Zavodovski Island VolcanoDiscovery (press release) (blog) The South Sandwich Islands are a chain of volcanoes caused by the subduction of the Sandwich microplate under the South American Plate. Zavodovski is a largely unknown basaltic stratovolcano. The first eruption at Mt Curry was observed in 1819 and some … See all stories on this topic »