When volcanoes rewrote the sky in the distant past, Earth kept the receipts. Layers of ice locked away chemical clues, lake beds filed ash like timestamped postcards, and fossilized reefs recorded the seas’ changing moods. Today, scientists are reading this archive with fresh urgency, searching for guidance as the planet warms at a human ...
In the middle of a quiet Pacific night, a whisper ran through the seafloor and into a web of listening machines. No cameras caught it. No ship’s crew felt a shudder underfoot. Yet the instruments did not blink: a pulse of low, rolling sound, a rapid pressure wobble, a flurry of tiny quakes – ...
It’s a strange feeling to realize the most disruptive natural hazard in America may not roar – it may whisper first. Across the country, from Alaska’s island arc to the Hawaiian hot spot and the Cascades spine, subtle signals are stacking up in 2025. Scientists aren’t sounding panic; they’re tightening their focus on a ...
Under Naples, Italy’s busy streets, a sleeping titan stirs. For decades, the large, smoldering volcanic crater known as Campi Flegrei has been shaking, baffling researchers with its regular but non-eruptive movement. New studies now point to a secret offender: a brittle layer of tuff rock compromised by millennia of magma intrusions that absorbs volcanic gases ...
Europa’s active volcano again snatched the spotlight. The 2nd of June, 2025 Mount Etna, in Sicily, erupted with an incredible display of the power of nature and sent a soaring plume of volcanic steam, ash and pyroclastic flow soaring across its slopes. The tourists who were near the summit rushed to safe areas as the ...
