16-06-27 When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics--seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas escapes through the vent, or the surrounding ground starts to deform. However, until now, there has no...

14-02-23 Researchers at UCL have studied the behaviour of the Sun's coronal mass ejections, explaining for the first time the details of how these huge eruptions behave as they fall back onto the Sun's surface. In the process, they have discovered that coron...

13-12-30 Thousands of people in eastern El Salvador are leaving their homes after a volcano erupted on Sunday morning. 上周日上午，萨尔瓦多东部一座火山爆发，数千人被迫离开家园。 Some 300 communities live around the volcano. Residents in the coffee-producing...

13-12-12 Brigham Young University geologists found evidence of some of the largest volcanic eruptions in earth's history right in their own backyard. These supervolcanoes aren't active today, but 30 million years ago more than 5,500 cubic kilometers of magma...

12-11-21 New Zealand's Mount Tongariro has erupted again, having rumbled back to life in August after more than a century of quiet. 新西兰汤加里罗火山再次喷发，它在沉寂了一个多世纪后，自八月份开始偶尔隆隆作响。 Mt Tongariro, pictured just after the eruption...