Climate Change May Increase Volcanic Eruptions
The rapid rise in sea levels could cause a dramatic increase in volcanic eruptions, according to a new study. Full story
Firefight! Men throw flaming rags in annual event
Early TODAY’s Lynn Berry takes a look at video of young men in El Salvador throwing balls of flame at each other as part of an annual event marking a huge volcanic eruption in the 1600s that forced many residents to leave the town.
Earliest Baby Animals Preserved in Ancient Volcanic Ash
The ash from a Pompeii-style volcanic eruption more than a half-billion years ago smothered a nursery of what may be some of the earliest known animals, researchers say. Full story
The Week in Pictures: June 2 - 9
A colorful volcanic eruption in Chile, a wild elephant's deadly rampage in India, burning parachutes in Afghanistan and more.
Trembling of Volcanoes Could Predict Their Eruption
An earthshaking new way to warn of explosive volcanic eruptions hours or days before they happen may finally have been discovered, by analyzing the tremors around the volcano, scientists reveal. Full story
Earth as seen from the International Space Station
These amazing images – ranging from volcanic eruptions to city lights to coral atolls – are just some of the more 450,000 photographs taken by astronauts with hand-held cameras.
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The Apoyo Caldera in Nicaragua was the site of a major volcanic eruption 24,500 years ago. New research suggests the eruption, and others like it, could have released gases that temporarily depleted the ozone layer.
Ancient "bomb sag" crater on Mars
The arrow points to an ancient "bomb sag" on Mars, a crater produced when a Martian rock blasted into the air by a volcanic eruption 3.5 billion years ago fell back to the ground.
Experts from the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands use a thermal infrared camera to analyze a stain at sea off the coast of the village of La Restinga on the Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro, early on October 13, 2011, a day after two underwater volcanic eruption were recorded. Two ne
