An Early Mass Extinction Event Cooked Our Planet and Erased Most Life
252 million years ago, volcanic eruptions in modern-day Siberia spewed 100 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the…
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Tag: Volcanoes
Massive Supereruptions Might Not Trigger the Apocalypse, Just Decades of Chaos
Finally, there’s some good news on the climate apocalypse front. Climate experts have long believed that a volcanic supereruption—a mind-bendingly…
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Preserved in Glass: How Mount Vesuvius Locked This Roman’s Brain in Time
Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, swallowing the nearby Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii in a superheated cloud…
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This Ethiopian Volcano Just Burped a Staggering Amount of Methane
There’s something odd happening under an Ethiopian national park. Volcanic and seismic activity were on the rise under a volcano…
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