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Canary Islands eruption didn’t act as we expected—we can now ask why

Enlarge / The Cumbre Vieja volcano’s eruption was complicated and not entirely what experts expected. (credit: Andreas Weibel ) Last fall’s Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands was surprising for several reasons. Most predominantly, the eruption did not cause tsunamis to spread across the Atlantic Ocean, as some experts had predicted. But for […]

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Surprise eruptions are Earth’s overlooked threat

Enlarge (credit: NOAA ) Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai erupted on January 15 in one of the largest volcanic events in decades, and research in recent years indicates that the volcano produces similar violent eruptions about once every millennium. But some of the deadliest and most explosive eruptions in the last two centuries have come from volcanoes […]

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36, 000 gigatons of carbon heralded history’s biggest mass extinction

Enlarge / Some of the massive volcanic deposits that are part of the Siberian Traps. (credit: MIT ) The end-Permian mass extinction was a big deal. It was the largest bulk extinction event ever and occurred 252 million years ago. A whopping 90 percent of all marine species and around 70 percent of their terrestrial […]

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Mount Vesuvius victims died just moments away from rescue

armi del soldato When Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 CE, the eruption also killed hundreds of people huddled on the shores of nearby Herculaneum. A recent study of the remains of one victim, who died on the beach not far from a small naval vessel, suggests that he might have […]

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Archaeologists Discover two bodies among the ruins of Pompeii

Expand (charge: Reuters) Archaeologists discovered the remains of two men lying within a subterranean area in a big villa in the outskirts of the Roman town of Pompeii, in southern Italy, Reuters reports. Dependent on the status of the skeletons and hints from asserted traces of clothes, 1 man seems to have turned into a […]

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Anne Heche Insists Dating Ellen DeGeneres Can Be Your Reason She Could Not Get Function For Ten Decades!

It’s dreadful to consider the discrimination Anne Heche has confronted … however, it’s both uplifting to see that her persevere through it all! The longtime celebrity is competing during this year of Dancing With The Stars, also through Monday night’therefore incident, she moves straight back to the past to re-live among the toughest times of her […]