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Christmas is the time for families to come together, and in the midst of the festive season, University of Leicester paleontologists have announced that they have reunited a family that has been separated for 150 million...
Academics from Northumbria University are part of an international research team which has used data from satellites to track changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Global warming is causing the Ice Sheet to melt...

Pompeii skeleton discovery shows another natural disaster may have made Vesuvius eruption even more deadly

Almost 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger wrote letters describing the shaking ground as Vesuvius erupted. Now, a collaborative study led by researchers from...

Study shows video analysis of Iceland 2010 eruption could improve volcanic ash forecasts for aviation safety

Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption is providing researchers from the University of Cambridge with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds—information that...

VIDEO | Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts after half a century

Footage taken from on board a helicopter over Hawaii's Kilauea shows lava fountaining out from fissures and volcanic gases blowing downwind. Kilauea is one...

Iceland volcano spews lava and smoke for a second day

A volcano south of Iceland's capital Reykjavik spewed smoke and lava for a second day on Thursday although at a significantly slower pace, authorities...

Iceland sees string of volcanic eruptions in last three years

Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula has seen a string of volcanic eruptions since 2021 when geological systems dormant for around 800 years became active again. Experts say...

Volcano in Iceland erupts for fifth time since December

A volcano in southwestern Iceland sent glowing hot lava shooting more than 50 metres into the air on Wednesday, its fifth eruption since December...

Clues from deep magma reservoirs could improve volcanic eruption forecasts

New research into molten rock 20km below the Earth's surface could help save lives by improving the prediction of volcanic activity. Volcanic eruptions pose significant...

Iceland volcano erupts for second time this year with lava close to power plant

A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the second time this year and the third time since December, pumping lava up to 80 metres...

Volcano eruption in Iceland, volcanologist warns: This could continue for several centuries

Volcanologist Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya, of the University of Leeds, has told the BBC that images coming out of Iceland "are very difficult to believe,...

Iceland volcano eruption: Drone footage shows scale of disaster as houses are set on fire and jets of lava spray

Drone footage has captured the moment lava flowed into a fishing town and set fire to houses after a volcano erupted in southern Iceland. The...

Mapping magma chambers under the Hunga volcano before and after the 2022 eruption

A small team of geologists, volcanologists and Earth scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, in the U.S., the GNS...

What we know so far about the volcanic eruption in Iceland

Scientists anticipated the eruption of a volcano in southwestern Iceland for weeks, so when it happened on Monday night, it was no surprise. The...

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