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One of Earth's most explosive volcanoes is quietly refilling with magma

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what ...

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.
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Scientists discover active underwater volcano covered with up to a million giant eggs off Canada

A deep-sea expedition has revealed an active underwater volcano off the Pacific coast of Canada, covered with thousands, ...

Glass Threads Spun From a Volcano’s Bubbly Magma

A volcanic formation known as Pele’s hair is produced when air-filled magma is stretched, according to a new study by a team ...
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Volcano erupts in northern Ethiopia, sending ash plumes toward Yemen and Oman

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A long-dormant volcano erupted in northern Ethiopia over the weekend, sending ash plumes across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar ...
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What’s inside Mexico’s Popocatépetl? Scientists obtain first 3D images of the whole volcano

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) — In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world’s most active and whose eruption could affect ...

Japan's giant caldera volcano is refilling 7,300 years later

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...
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Europe’s most active volcano is erupting, and tour guides are told to stay away

MOUNT ETNA, Italy — Guides who take tourists to enjoy the striking views of Sicily's Mount Etna are up in arms over tougher restrictions imposed by local authorities after a round of eruptions at the ...