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Do you know about the volcano that has the same rights as a human person?
New Zealand has granted legal personhood to Mount Taranaki, an active volcano revered by the Māori …
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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AI is setting humanity on the path to a new age of discovery
Recent developments have shown how algorithms can help humans decipher ancient papyrus scrolls and …
Hasan Chowdhury
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Photos show giant cracks breaking open streets in a town near Iceland's volcano that could erupt within hours
Grindavik was evacuated on Saturday after magma shifting under the Earth's crust caused by 2,000 ea…
Rebecca Rommen
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Oldest human fossils from eastern Africa are about 30,000 years older than scientists thought
The bones of ancient Homo sapiens, unearthed in Ethiopia, were buried beneath a layer of volcanic a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Ancient tools found in India suggest the Toba supervolcano eruption didn't leave humanity on the brink of extinction
When the Toba supervolcano erupted 74,000 years ago, it was one of the most devastating events to e…
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Scientists fully sequenced DNA of a man who died at Pompeii and found he may have had a disease that hindered his escape
Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago, burying Pompeii in volcanic ash. Researchers are now…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Hawaii's Mauna Loa the world's largest active volcano — is erupting, triggering blood-red skies and an ash advisory
Multiple agencies said Monday morning that there was no immediate threat to populated areas, but as…
Jake Epstein,Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Balloons detect mysterious sounds in the stratosphere below the human hearing limit. Scientists can't explain.
Solar-powered balloons in the stratosphere can hear ocean waves crashing, wind turbines spinning, e…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Unbelievable videos show a 40-foot wall of lava engulfing homes on La Palma in the Canary Islands
Videos shared to Twitter show a sea of lava completely engulfing homes, roads, and fields on the Sp…
Jake Epstein
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How volcanologists sample lava from hard to almost impossible
Volcanologists sample lava in the field and by making it in a lab. Here's how both methodologies wo…
Abby Tang,Nicole Raucheisen,A…
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This hazard map shows how much of St. Vincent is in danger from the volcano eruption
Local emergency services shared a graphic on Facebook showing what parts of the 133 square-mile isl…
Kelly McLaughlin
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A photographer captured the exact moment lightning struck Japan's Sakurajima volcano as it erupted
The average lightning strike lasts about 30 microseconds, or .00030 seconds, making this a very luc…
Talia Lakritz
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Deutsche Bank says a giant volcanic eruption and another deadly pandemic are among the 'catastrophic' disasters that could devastate the world economy in the next 10 years
The four biggest risks are: a major influenza pandemic killing two million, a catastrophic volcanic…
Saloni Sardana
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Photos show how SpaceX's first civilian crew trained by climbing Mount Rainier and flying jets. They launch Wednesday.
The Inspiration4 crew has climbed Mount Rainier and endured a 30-hour simulation inside a Crew Drag…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Thousands of worshippers climbed a volcano to throw livestock into its smouldering crater in centuries-old sacrifice ritual in Indonesia
Members of the Tengger tribe gather on Mount Bromo in Indonesia and offer sacrifices, including liv…
Zac Ntim
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Here Are All The Volcanoes In The US - And How Dangerous They Are
Here's the full map of volcanoes in the U.S., from the USGS. This map shows all of the active volca…
Ajai Raj
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NASA Satellites Spy Erupting Iceland Volcano From Space
Infrared imagery can help scientists estimate the effusion rate-the rate at which lava is pouring o…
NASA Earth Observatory
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Scientists say we'll only get a year to prepare if a super-volcano erupts
So, the study researchers decided to analyze quartz crystals at the site of one of these massive er…
Simone M. Scully
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Animated map of Mars reveals where humans should build the first Martian cities
The most habitable places are labeled in dark blue on the map. And we're pretty familiar with some …