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Researchers discover hottest lavas that erupted in past 2.5 billion years
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
The study, led by Esteban Gazel, an assistant professor with Virginia Tech's Department of Geosciences, and his doctoral student Jarek Trela of Deer Park, Illin...
Mexico next in line to examine geothermal energy
May 23, 2017 (UPI)
French energy company ENGIE and its Icelandic counterpart, Reykjavik Geothermal, said the Mexican Ministry of Energy issued three exploration permits to assess ...
Scientists Look to Skies to Improve Tsunami Detection
May 19, 2017 (JPL)
The new approach, called Variometric Approach for Real-time Ionosphere Observation, or VARION, uses observations from GPS and other global navigation satellite ...
Scientists link ancient ash to volcano more than 3,000 miles away
May 19, 2017 (UPI)
"I expected our ash to originate from Iceland. This study really highlights the need to look beyond the usual suspects in this line of research," Willem van der...
Campi Flegrei volcano eruption possibly closer than thought
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The authors of the study, published this week in Nature Communications, used a new model of volcano fracturing developed at UCL to investigate whether Campi Fle...
New study documents aftermath of a supereruption
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
In fact, Oregon State University researchers were able to link recent eruptions at Mt. Sinabung in northern Sumatra to the last eruption on Earth of a supervolc...
From where will the next big earthquake hit the city of Istanbul
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
The extent of such seismic threat to this Turkish city of Istanbul actually depends on how strongly the plates are entangled and on the exact nucleation point o...
Dredging the drains: the race to stop floods in Accra
May 17, 2017 (AFP)
Authorities are scrambling to prevent a similar emergency when the heavens open by clearing silt, rubbish and sludge from the open drains and waterways of the c...
Hurricane's atmospheric gravity waves help predict the storm's path
May 16, 2017 (UPI)
Atmospheric gravity waves are propelled in spirals outward from the center of large storm systems. Scientists at the University of Miami and the NOAA's Hurrican...
New tool could help predict, prevent surging waters in flood plains
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
"Understanding the flow of sediment in rivers is important to the large number of people around the world who live near these waterways," said Judy Skog, a prog...
Quake kills two, injures hundreds in Iran: state media
May 14, 2017 (AFP)
The quake, which struck at 1800 GMT Saturday in and around the city of Bojnurd, North Khorasan province, killed a 54-year-old woman and a teenage girl, ISNA new...
Another day on the job, in the eye of a hurricane
May 13, 2017 (AFP)
Last year, for instance, Black flew through Hurricane Matthew, which reached the maximum category five strength, to measure its fury as the storm struck the Car...
Eastern Canada is drying out after the worst flooding in a half-century
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
"The frequency of extreme weather events is increasing," Trudeau told reporters on the ground after the helicopter tour. "And that's related to climate change. ...
NASA spots Eastern Pacific season's earliest first tropical storm in satellite era
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
Although Eastern Pacific hurricane season doesn't start officially until May 15, it's just a marker. We've already seen the first tropical storm in the Atlantic...
Earthquake kills eight in western China: report
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
The shallow 5.4-magnitude quake struck at 5:58 am (2158 GMT Wednesday) 213 kilometres (133 miles) south-southwest of the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the ...
Strong quake hits southern Japan, no tsunami risk
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
The magnitude 6.0 quake hit at a depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in waters off the island of Miyako in the southern Okinawan chain, according to the US Geolo...
Climate change, tornadoes and mobile homes: A dangerous mix
May 08, 2017 (SPX)
The number of mobile homes in the United States has risen dramatically in the past 60 years, to about 9 million currently. Meanwhile, the U.S. is the most torna...
Canada's army rolls in after devastating floods
May 08, 2017 (AFP)
Several rivers and lakes have overflowed their banks in Quebec province, between Gatineau in the Canadian capital region and Montreal 200 kilometers (125 miles)...
Trail of damage as Cyclone Donna skirts Vanuatu
May 06, 2017 (AFP)
The storm was upgraded late in the day to a category four severe tropical cyclone by the Vanuatu Meteorological Service which warned "damaging gale to destructi...
Guatemala volcano eruption subsides after hasty evacuations
May 06, 2017 (AFP)
The so-called Volcano of Fire lies 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Guatemala City. Authorities closely monitor its activity. On Friday, 300 people in the nearby v...
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