Decoding volcanic ‘crystal balls’ can help scientists tell ahead of time when a volcano is going to erupt
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The eruption in East Java that claimed 22 lives on Saturday was likely triggered by weather conditions rather than by internal unrest inside Mount Semeru, which would have been easier to monitor.
Research into the bodies of victims of the Vesuvius eruption show how pyroclastic flows affect the human body.
Guatemala has ended its Fuego volcano rescue mission and declared 110 dead. But people in the hot, ash-covered eruption zone say that the real death tally is much higher and that they’ll keep digging.
Important points about volcanoes: location matters, explosiveness can be predicted to an extent, and fast-moving flows of volcanic materials (known as pyroclastic flows) are deadly.
Pyroclastic flows are biggest danger in these eruptions.
Volcanic ash can cause a nuisance to farmers, burying agricultural lands and damaging crops. But in the long term, this ash will create highly productive soil that can support huge populations.
The nine metre-high waves that smashed into Minoan civilisation on Crete weren’t caused by the volcano collapsing.
What can we expect Australia’s next volcanic eruption to be like? That depends where and when it happens, and it could be sooner than you think.
A series of fossil discoveries in the 1990s changed our understanding of the lives of early birds and mammals, as well as the dinosaurs they shared an ecosystem with. All those discoveries had one thing…
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Monash University
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Associate Professor in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Palaeontology, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing University
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Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
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Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Volcanologist, Lancaster University
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Professor in Soil-Landscape Modelling, University of Sydney
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Professor of Soil Science, Universitas Andalas
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Emeritus Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Volcanology, University of Hull
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Assistant Lecturer in Volcanology, Monash University
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Igneous Petrology/Volcanology, The University of Queensland