Whenever reference is made to the mud volcano in Tabaquite, people generally respond “Oh yes, Piparo”. Though Piparo is relatively near to Tabaquite, these mud volcanic areas are separate. Recently ...

Hidden beneath the placid surface of a Siberian lake, a robot has mapped a landscape that looks more like an alien seabed than a freshwater basin. By tracing plumes of gas and reshaped sediments, ...

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Dominica recently set aside nearly 800 square kilometers of the Caribbean Sea as the world’s first Sperm Whale Marine ...

Far beneath the forests and hot springs of the American West, the continent’s largest active volcanic system is rumbling in ...

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A fiery mud volcano erupted in Pingtung County’s Wandan Township around 5 a.m. Wednesday and lasted for about three hours, sending mud flowing into nearby fields. The eruption, ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles when pressure drops—it can do so simply by being sheared and “kneaded” ...

A mud volcano erupted in Taiwan on Wednesday spewing water with sediments and gas. Video shows locals enjoying the spectacle by throwing flaming rags into the volcano, which sets alight the methane ...

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Life has a remarkable knack for persisting even in the most unlikely of environments. A new study finds lipid biomarkers in a extremely alkaline ...