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Scientists are warning that glaciers melting due to global warming could trigger volcanic eruptions around the world.
Scientists in Iceland are aiming to drill 1.3 miles into the earth's crust to a volcano's magma chamber in order to source huge amounts of geothermal energy.
At Thrihnukagigur ("Three Peaks Crater") you can take an elevator inside a volcano's magma chamber. Cave explorer Dr. Árni B Stefánsson discovered the chamber in 1974 and fought to open it to ...
Glacial retreat caused a wave of volcanic activity in southern Chile as the last Ice Age came to an end, according to new ...
The eruptions of volcanoes in Chile have been influenced by the expansion and contraction of the glaciers above them, a major ...
Scientists have worked out the consistency of the magma under the Yellowstone caldera using seismic waves — and the reservoir is filled with "mush" that doesn't pose an imminent eruption threat.
Earth World's first tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited energy. In Iceland, scientists are planning to drill two boreholes to a reservoir of liquid rock.
These were used to identify a large magma chamber that has been growing at an average rate of roughly 4 million cubic meters per year since Kolumbo's last eruption in 1650 C.E.
If you ever want your research to be picked up by the popular press, you pretty much need to publish in the journal Science. It (along with Nature) are seen as the Premier League of scientific ...
Further calculations revealed that the magma chamber has been growing at a rate of 141 million cubic feet (4 million cubic meters) per year ever since its eruption in 1650.
At Thrihnukagigur ("Three Peaks Crater") you can take an elevator inside a volcano's magma chamber. Cave explorer Dr. Árni B Stefánsson discovered the chamber in 1974 and fought to open it to ...
Scientists in Iceland have come up with an ambitious plan to drill into a volcano’s magma chamber to source an abundant amount of clean, super-hot geothermal energy.. The project, which would be ...