Last Updated: Monday, March 4, 2013, 15:58
Sulphur dioxide emissions from moderate volcanoes around the world can mask some of the effects of global warming by 25 percent, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 9, 2012, 15:08
Volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps near modern-day Mumbai, and not an asteroid, may have killed the dinosaurs about 65-million-years ago, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Monday, December 3, 2012, 17:23
ESA’s Venus Express have detected large changes in the sulphur dioxide content of the planet’s atmosphere, and astronomers suspect volcanic eruptions behind it.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 14:23
In a new study, scientists have blamed volcanism for a 500-year cold period referred to as the Little Ice Age.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 15:20
The surface of Mars comprised a number of lava flows and other signs of effusive volcanism.
Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2012, 08:38
Britain has added volcanoes and solar storms to floods, flu and terrorism on a list of threats to national security.
Last Updated: Monday, February 20, 2012, 13:23
Using powerful X-rays to measure lunar rock densities, scientists have found why our Moon, contrary to Earth, has no active volcanoes.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 13:45
New images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean have revealed the destruction of massive underwater mountains as one of Earth’s most violent processes.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 18:36
Mars is hiding something that could rewrite the planet’s history.
Last Updated: Monday, September 27, 2010, 08:40
Magma has worked its way up to just under the surface in a remote region of northwest Saudi Arabia.
Last Updated: Monday, February 1, 2010, 11:21
A new research has suggested that a spate of volcanic activity may have triggered environmental changes that led to widespread destruction of life in the oceans some 100 million years ago.
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