Not till 2020, around 1,941 years after he breathed his last, did scientists demonstrate that the unfortunate volcano victim’s brain, or parts of it, had literally turned to a glass-like ...
Mount Otemanu is one of two peaks of an extinct volcano located at the center of the island. Rising 2,400-some feet above the lagoon, this volcanic remnant makes for a dramatic photo op or an ...
Scientists are keeping a close eye on a giant volcano in Alaska that appears to be 'moving closer to an eruption.' On March 7, Mount Spurr, an 11,000-foot-tall stratovolcano that sits 81 miles ...
A Pacific submarine volcano called Axial Seamount is likely to erupt in 2025, freelance writer Rachel Berkowitz reported in “An undersea volcano may soon erupt near Oregon.” Reader Ginger ...
A huge volcano in Alaska appears to be "moving closer to an eruption," scientists monitoring it have said. Mount Spurr, which sits 81 miles (130 kilometers) west of Anchorage, is now releasing ...
A volcano that hasn't erupted in the Holocene is considered extinct. This geologic-timescale-based distinction is somewhat arbitrary, Ben Kennedy, a volcanologist at the University of Canterbury ...
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VIENTIANE, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in southern Laos' Champasak province are working to develop facilities around an extinct volcano in Paksong district, upgrading the site to a provincial ...