Ancient Antarctic eruption noted
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Reflections from under the ice are evidence of a volcanic eruption in Antarctica 2,000 years ago, scientists say.
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Research released Thursday offers new evidence that global warming caused by massive and prolonged volcanic activity may have been the chief culprit in the biggest mass extinction in Earth's geologic history.
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The European Space Agency&#39;s Mars Express Orbiter has taken new images of Mars that suggest there has been recent volcanic activity on the surface of the red planet.
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Astronomers using a giant telescope atop a volcano have discovered a hot spot at the tip of Saturn's south pole.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON - Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report.
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The weight of evidence to suggest that some Antarctic glaciers are melting at an increasing pace continues to build. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has been melting naturally
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SPACE.com / Paleontologists have uncovered a 25-million-year-old whale fossil with a monstrous set of teeth and enormous eyes on the coast of Australia.
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An 8.1 magnitude earthquake that struck in Antarctic waters on yesterday -- the biggest recorded in the world this year -- would have devastated a city had it been much closer, according to a New Zealand seismologist.
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Vents on Alaska's Fourpeaked Mountain have been spewing volcanic gases and experts at the Alaska Volcano Observatory say an eruption is possible.
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Each November, John W. Schutt flies to Antarctica to join a team of geologists who search for meteorites. His mission is to ensure that they make it back alive.
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Ice is sliding off the Antarctic continent much faster than it did during the 1990s, several teams of researchers have found. On the Antarctic Peninsula that sticks out from the western side of the continent
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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Deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheets are at least 145 lakes that may be teeming with microscopic organisms similar to those that could be thriving beneath the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa.
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By The Associated Press. Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead
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University of New Mexico researcher Barbara Cohen now knows for certain that the rock she found while trolling the barren Antarctica landscape is special.