40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano—Today, They’re Tiny Heroes
It would probably pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the ...
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What Would Shiveluch's Current Eruptions Look Like in the United States?
Sometimes it is hard to compare the eruptions of remote volcano to potential blasts at more well-known volcanoes. I try to ...
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Volcanic eruptions and flight delays
There are over 1,500 active volcanoes around the Earth with an average of 50-70 eruptions per year. According to VolcanoDiscovery.com, as of the weekend, there are 36 volcanoes that are currently ...
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How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
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Volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupts for the 7th time in a year
While the eruption poses no threat to air travel, authorities warned of gas emissions across parts of the peninsula, ...