Environment

World's first tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash u...

In Iceland, scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liq...

Lithium mining looks set to reshape Bolivia's Salar de ...

Photographer Matjaz Krivic has been charting the effects of lithium mining on lo...

Siberia’s mysterious exploding craters may be caused by...

Several enormous craters left by explosions have been spotted in Siberia over th...

Lightning during volcanic eruptions may have sparked li...

Lightning strikes during volcanic eruptions could have provided nitrogen in a fo...

Ocean thunderstorms generate the most intense lightning...

An analysis of satellite observations has identified some extreme thunderstorms ...

Huge deposit of natural hydrogen gas detected deep in A...

Companies are searching all over the world for deposits of geologic hydrogen tha...

Enormous underwater mountains discovered off west coast...

An ocean research vessel has just discovered four underwater mountains, the tall...

Giant magma flow in Iceland was the fastest ever recorded

As a 15-kilometre crack formed ahead of the recent eruptions, magma flowed into ...

Largest volcanic eruption in recorded history happened ...

The Kikai-Akahoya eruption of an underwater volcano off the coast of Japan eject...

Eerie green sunsets after 1883 Krakatoa eruption finall...

Mysterious green sunsets were reported after the massive eruption of Krakatoa in...

Stark mountain landscapes exposed in Canada as glaciers...

Global warming means many of the world’s ancient rivers of ice will be gone with...

Surprise decision not to define the Anthropocene shocks...

A proposal to define the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch defined by human activit...

It's time to accept that we are in the Anthropocene onc...

Humans are drastically changing the planet and the Anthropocene is a useful tool...

Stark, haunting images show Kazakhstan's former nuclear...

These stunning photographs are all shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Aw...

Why supersonic, diamond-spewing volcanoes might be comi...

Strange volcanoes called kimberlites bring diamonds up from Earth's depths. Scie...

Sulphur dioxide from Iceland volcano eruption has reach...

A huge plume of sulphur dioxide from the latest eruption in Iceland is drifting ...

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