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'Nothing is out of the question': Iceland volcano primed to erupt again, Grindavík still in danger zone
By Hannah Osborne published
The Icelandic Met Office has warned magma beneath Reykjanes Peninsula is quickly reaching levels seen before the Jan. 14 eruption, and a fissure could open with just one hour of warning.
'We were gobsmacked': 350 million-year-old tree fossils are unlike any scientists have ever seen
By Sascha Pare published
Rare tree fossils preserved with their leaves have an architecture unlike any plant known today and represent the earliest evidence of smaller trees growing beneath the forest canopy.
Major 'magnetic anomaly' discovered deep below New Zealand's Lake Rotorua
By Patrick Pester published
Lake Rotorua, which sits at the heart of a dormant volcano and is the setting for one of New Zealand's most famous Māori love stories, has been mapped in detail for the 1st time.
'Roots' of Colombian mountains 'dripped' into the mantle millions of years ago — but the peaks still stand tall
By Sascha Pare published
Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago.
Mass starvation after nuclear war could be partially averted with one specific food — seaweed
By Ben Turner published
A nuclear winter could reduce global calorie production by as much as 90%. But vast kelp farms could help save 1.2 billion lives until temperatures recover.
A perfect storm of factors is causing major East Coast cities to sink. What are they, and can we do anything about it?
By Lydia Smith published
Cities along the Atlantic coast — including New York, Boston, and Miami — are sinking into the ground.
'Hunter-gatherers must have gazed in horror': What would Toba's supereruption have been like for our ancient relatives?
By Clive Oppenheimer published
"This was a blast 150 times bigger still than Tambora's, disgorging enough pyroclastic rock to cover the whole of the United States to the depth of a one-storey home."
1.6-billion-year-old fossils push back origin of multicellular life by tens of millions of years
By Kiley Price published
Researchers uncovered fossils of multicellular eukaryotes that are over a billion years old.
Iceland villages in danger of 'crack collapse,' ground swelling following volcanic eruption
By Sascha Pare published
The ground below the Icelandic fishing town of Grindavík is so fissured and unstable following the volcanic eruption earlier this month that it could collapse, officials have warned.
Underwater Santorini volcano eruption 520,000 years ago was 15 times bigger than record-breaking Tonga eruption
By Sascha Pare published
A 500-foot-thick layer of pumice rock on the Mediterranean seabed indicates Santorini volcano ejected 15 times more material than Hunga-Tonga during a previously unknown eruption.
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