Volcanic Eruption News

Anthony put up a post titled " Why the new Otto et al climate sensitivity paper is important - it's a sea change for some IPCC authors " The paper in question is " Energy budget constraints on climate response " , supplementary online information here , by Otto et alia, sixteen other alia to be precise.

In one of my school history books, as I remember, there is a story that saffron was introduced into Europe by a pilgrim from concealing some corms in his staff, to avoid the death penalty if found by the agents of the Sultans who controlled its export.

WATCH as Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano roars to life early Tuesday morning which has resulted in more than 160 mini-earthquakes, according to the Observatorio Vulcanologico.

Park rangers activated a green alert, the lowest of three levels, after the 10,958-foot Turrialba volcano rumbled loudly and emitted thick clouds of ash.

A new study claims earthquakes and volcanoes are responsible for the diverse nature of the ocean's coral reefs.

Volcanologists who monitor eruptions of Alaskan volcanoes are scrambling to cope with US federal budget cuts - even as the Pavlof volcano, 1,000 kilometres southwest of Alaska's biggest city, Anchorage, spouts a towering ash plume that is threatening plane flights.

A new method of sourcing the origins of artefacts in high definition is set to improve our understanding of the past.

Witnessing life in Goma, a city that's been invaded, ransacked, inundated with refugees, and flattened by a volcano -- all in the last 17 years.

Alaska Airlines says that few of its flights have been affected by the release of ashes from two volcanoes.

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some near Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla.

It's kind of a "That's no moon" moment in real life - a series of discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s led geologists to realize that most of Yellowstone National Park was one giant volcanic caldera.

One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, which has been belching ash and spewing lava since last week, has forced regional flight cancellations and dusted some nearby communities with ash, scientists and local officials said on Monday.

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

Vasco da Gama arrives in India, Christopher Columbus dies, Norman Rockwell makes his Saturday Evening Post cover debut, HIV is discovered, and "Cheers" airs its series finale, all on this day.

Anchorage - Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward on Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.

One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes has shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air in an ongoing eruption that has drawn attention from a nearby community but isn't expected to threaten air traffic.

Unravelling the mysteries of the world around us is all in a day's work for Victoria University researcher Dr Mark McGuinness.

This week he's been exposed. There was little thinking on what modern Conservatism might be like.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in mid-eruption, traps First Officer Spock over a boiling ocean of lava.

Mount St. Helens in eruption on May 18, 1980 showing portion of crater and Mount Adams in background.