This wasn’t just any island though – it was formed by the eruption of a mud volcano and soon, it’ll have completely disappeared. The mud volcano in question is known as Kumani Bank and ...

A transient “ghost island”, born from a mud volcano eruption in the Caspian Sea, has captivated researchers. The island emerged in early 2023, only to recede into the sea by the end of 2024 ...

The Borealis Mud Volcano is only the second found in Norwegian waters and releases a continuous stream of methane-rich, muddy liquid from deep below Earth's crust. When you purchase through links ...

Kumani Bank fading from view. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. An island created by the eruption of a mud volcano in the ...

Last erupted in 2021 This 532m high mud volcano is in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Last erupted in 2003 This 710m high ...

Add to that an active volcano, and these islands have it all. The Nicobar Islands group is out of bounds for foreigners at present. Foreigners require Indian visas to visit the Andaman Islands.

When a strange white sphere appeared in the skies above the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in January 2022, it swiftly became a talking point in this sleepy Indian Ocean archipelago of 430,000 people.

A US national, Mykhailo Viktorvych Polyakov, was arrested for entering prohibited North Sentinel Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He was remanded to custody with video evidence ...

India has a mix of active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes. The table below provides a summary: Volcano Name Location Activity ...

In a shocking response to an RTI query a few months later, WII admitted it had never conducted any study ever on the leatherback turtles in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. One might never have ...