Mar 12
Put your face close to your screen and hit play. This short video, uploaded by YouTuber Shaun O’Callaghan, was shot from a DJI Phantom quad-copter as Yasur volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu erupted.
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Jan 07
Do you have a cute and cuddly stuffed animal near you? If not, you might want to find one because what you’re about to read will scare you silly. And not the good kind of silly either. We’re talking The-End-Is-Coming sort of silly.
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Nov 24
Mount Etna Is Making It Rain Rocks
Posted in: Today's ChiliThere’s nothing like some casual rock precipitation to make you glad you packed your umbrella.
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Nov 20
Off the coast of Japan, an exploding volcano has formed a new island about 650 meters in diameter. You can see it spewing and spouting black volcanic ash all around as it fills itself out. Pretty cool.
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Nov 14
Think you’re cool cause you can blow o’s when you smoke? Mother Nature has still got you beat. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy took a little break from erupting to blow O-shaped smoke rings hundreds of feet in diameter to make every smoker and pot head in the world jealous. Just look at it. It’s perfect!
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Nov 14
Japanese photographer Kent Shiraishi is the author of a photograph that’s now known to millions as the background wallpaper to OSX Mountain Lion—the counterpart to Windows XP’s rolling green grass fields. But while most of us know Shiraishi’s photo, not as many know the fascinating story behind it.
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Nov 01
We’re used to thinking of the moon as a cold and unassuming lump of rock—but new research suggests that it could have been made of a strange magma mush for hundreds of millions of years before it solidified into the object we now see every night.
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Oct 31
Everyone knows that Yellowstone is home to a super-volcano
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Sep 05
The biggest volcano ever found on Earth—one of the biggest we know of in the solar system—has been hidden for ages. But now scientists have found it, just chillin’ beneath the sea. It’s a monster.
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Jul 19
It might look like a colorful oil painting, but you’re actually looking at an Envisat radar image of chain of volcanoes called the Virunga Mountains—home to Africa’s two most active volcanoes.
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