12-11-23 Less than 2% of Earth's fossils are preserved in volcanic rock, but researchers have identified a new one: the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption 9.2 million years ago. The find is described in a paper published November 21 in the...

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...

12-11-06 The largest volcanic eruption on Earth in the past millions of years took place in Indonesia 74,000 years ago and researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute can now link the colossal（巨大的） eruption with the global climate and the effects on early...

12-10-15 Scientists from the University of Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth. The Las Caadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, has generated at least eight major eruptions...

12-07-06 A U of S-led international research team has discovered that aerosols（气溶胶） from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be boosted into the high atmosphere by weather systems such as monsoons（季风） , where they can affect global temperatures....

12-06-13 A modern recurrence of an extraordinary type of volcanic eruption in Iceland could inject large quantities of hazardous（有危险的） gases into North Atlantic and European flight corridors, potentially for months at a time, a new study suggests. Usin...

12-06-13 Giant volcanic eruptions in Nicaragua over the past 70,000 years could have injected enough gases into the atmosphere to temporarily thin the ozone layer, according to new research. And, if it happened today, a similar explosive eruption could do th...

12-03-14 Do a Google image search for Greece. Before you find pictures of the Parthenon or Acropolis, you'll see several beautiful photos of Santorini, the picturesque（独特的，生动的） island in the Aegean Sea. The British Broadcasting Company named it the...

12-02-28 Seawater circulation pumps hydrogen and boron（硼） into the oceanic plates that make up the seafloor, and some of this seawater remains trapped as the plates descend into the mantle（地幔） at areas called subduction（俯冲） zones. By analyzing sam...

11-10-10 Volcanologists from the University of Leicester have uncovered one of the world's best-preserved accessible examples of a monstrous（巨大的，怪异的） landslide that followed a huge volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of Tenerife. Seven hundred...