The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for…
Tonga’s 2022 ‘Ultra’ Eruption Rewrote the Rules for Tsunamis. Now We Know Why
Every single house on Mango Island was swept away by the tsunami that radiated out when the submarine…
How underwater ‘booms’ could provide earlier warning of deadly volcanic tsunamis
Auckland, The massive January 2022 eruption of Hunga volcano in the Kingdom of Tonga took the world by…
Ancient Toba eruption reveals a supervolcano can stay dangerous for thousands of years
Indonesia’s Toba supervolcano remained active for thousands of years after its massive eruption about 74,000 years ago.Some later…
Ancient oceans started to suffocate 8 million years before the Triassic mass extinction
The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it…
A New Way to Fight Climate Change Emerges From Erupting Volcano
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apa submarine volcano erupted in 2022, it spewed roughly 2.9 billion tons of ash…
‘What happened in the past is likely to recur’
Researchers analyzing ancient seafloor sediments discovered that West Antarctica’s ice sheet has collapsed and regrown several times over…