The Australian government does not owe the nation’s children protection from harm from climate change, a court has heard. The Federal Court’s full bench on Tuesday ruled unanimously in favor of an appeal by Environment Minister Sussan Ley, reversing a decision by a previous judge who had legally recognized a duty of care. Eight high […]
Climate change has pushed temperatures in New South Wales 1.1C above the last century, but greenhouse gas emissions are falling. The latest State of the Environment report released by the NSW Environment Protection Authority on Thursday found that greenhouse gas emissions had fallen by 17% from 2005. The report also revealed that the share of […]
Volcanic lightning strikes Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, during an eruption on Friday, February 11, 2022. Photo: Emilio Messina (PA) A powerful eruption last week from Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy created a volcanic storm so powerful it lit up the sky with a dramatic flash. The eruption began late last Thursday and threw volcanic […]
Researchers have found that underwater eruptions are far more powerful than originally thought and can blast volcanic rocks through the air at “supersonic speeds” in just seconds. Last month, the Hunga Tonga Hunga Haapai volcano made global headlines, but underwater eruptions were still vastly underestimated. Pink pumice as evidence of a larger eruption? According to […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS Smoke billowed from the Mount Etna volcano, seen from Nicolosi, Sicily, southern Italy, on Thursday.
One of nineteen megadiverse countries in the world, Guatemala is so rich in natural wonders that even its currency – the Quetzal – is named after a tropical bird. With so much nature to discover, including 37 volcanoes, 5 lakes and 360 microclimates, the nation is perfect for outdoor enthusiasts with a sense of adventure. […]
Nicknamed the “Aloha State”, The state of Hawaii is located approximately 3,200 km southwest of the contiguous United States in the Pacific Ocean. It is the only American state located outside the North American continent. The eight main islands of Hawaii, namely Hawai’i, Maui, O’ahu, Kaua’i, Moloka’i, Lana’i, Ni’ihau and Kaho’olawe, were formed by volcanic […]
Representative image of the volcanic eruption. (IANS) The eruption of Mount Semeru in East Java province has raised concerns about the status of other active volcanoes across Indonesia, which are home to more than 270 million people. After Mount Semeru erupted on Dec. 4, three volcanoes were on Level Three alert, the second highest, according […]
A versatile teenager on ‘Mission Sahas’Kaamya Karthikeyan, 14, is the recipient of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar in 2021. Daughter of Indian Navy Commander S Karthikeyan and Lavanya Karthikeyan, Kaamya’s encounter with the mountains began when her mother made a unscheduled trip to Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu due to sudden roadblock on […]
This is the first in a series titled “Ancient Alabama,” examining the natural forces that have made Alabama what it is for the past 500 million years, and how these forces still shape it. State today. Each year, thousands of people visit Alabama’s Cheaha State Park to see the state’s tallest peak, climb the steps […]
The USGS continues to closely monitor volcanoes around the United States, with four now at Orange / Watch elevated due to noted activity on all four of them. The Great Sitkin, Pavlof, Semisopochnoi and Kilauea are the four volcanoes showing signs of trouble. With the exception of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which remains yellow / advisory, […]
Volcanic ash meets the Saharan air layer in a unique display above La Palma Mother Nature can work in mysterious ways to create a work of art out of something that seems nothing out of the ordinary. In the case of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, […]
The Sierra Nevada Mountains, sometimes referred to as the “Range of Light,†are one of the most beautiful continuous mountain ranges in the United States. Although the Rockies are the longest mountain range in the United States, the Sierra Nevada is the longest continuous, unified mountain range. The mountain range is located in the western […]
The Ouachita Mountains are a mountain range in the south-central United States that stretches approximately 360 kilometers east to west from central Arkansas to southeast Oklahoma. The mountain range takes its name from two Choctaw words meaning “land of the great buffaloes.” The Ouachitas are a continuation of the Ozark Mountains, the two mountain ranges […]
Nature conceals within it a multitude of events and magnificent formations that never cease to amaze us. One of them are volcanoes, a geological structure through which magma emerges and is divided into lava and gas from inside the Earth. Volcanoes can have many shapes and release different materials. There are also many submarine volcanoes […]
Each piece begins with a bird’s-eye view of the history and impact of a unique American site, then zooms in to reveal the experience on the ground. In this article, Hawaii-based writer Catherine Toth Fox explores the fiery magic of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. © Michael Parkin, Folio Art 35,000 feet: the beginnings of Hawaii […]
A titanic volcanic eruption in AD 1257 spat out colossal amounts of ash, sulfur and glassy pumice, and affected the climate over the course of the whole planet. It was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, eruptions of the past 7,000 years, and there’s literally evidence of it from pole to pole. Corn… […]
How are mountains formed? Most mountains owe their existence to the movement of tectonic plates, large sections of the earth’s crust. Where two tectonic plates converge, they warp and bend, resulting in the most common type: folded mountains. The Himalayas, for example, are the result of the slow collision of the Asian and Indian plates. […]
View from the 600 Majigi spot at Cheongoksan in PyeongChang, Gangwon province (Im Eun-byel / The Korea Herald) PYEONGCHANG, Gangwon Province – With cool breezes signaling the impending arrival of autumn, the 18th Music in PyeongChang came to a close on Saturday, closing its 11-day race. As Seoul baked in scorching heat in recent weeks, […]
Both islands are known for their active volcanoes and for those who fascinate them, it is a difficult choice to decide which are the best. Iceland and the Hawaiian Islands could not be more contrasted. While the Hawaiian Islands are tropical, Iceland is subarctic. While the natives of the Hawaiian Islands are Polynesians, the Icelanders […]
But that might not be the case in the future, especially if global warming and melting ice caps are taken into account. It should be noted that the report’s findings make no predictions about volcanic eruptions or the potential dangers posed by volcanic islands. Instead, the report should provide researchers with more context for the […]
The Tarso Toussidé volcanic massif is featured in this false color composite image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Tarso Toussidé, capped by the (potentially active) Toussidé stratovolcano, is located at the western end of the Tibesti Mountains in Chad. With […]
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Sonar image of the “Eye of Sauron” volcano and nearby seamounts on the seabed southwest of … [+] Christmas Island. Phil Vandenbossche & Nelson Kuna / CSIRO Inspired by the description of Mordor, presented in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga as a kingdom of black volcanic plains surrounding the active volcano Mount Doom, […]
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Mountains are landforms that rise above the surrounding terrain, usually thousands of feet high. Some mountains stand on their own; others are part of long chains called mountain ranges. Mountains are formed in one of three ways: Volcanic explosions Tectonic faults that occur when tectonic plates slide over each other Tectonic collisions The height of […]
Often called Stara Planina or “old mountain”, the Balkan Mountains are a mountain range located in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in south-eastern Europe. The Balkan Mountains were colloquially known by their Thracian name, Haemus Mons, since ancient times. However, the term “Balkan” is a Turkish word for a forested mountain range. The […]
Mountains have always played a central role in human culture, but it is only recently that we have understood how they form and develop. To this day, these magnificent reliefs still hold many secrets. There are several ways to analyze and classify mountains depending on your science discipline. Here we will describe in detail some […]
NOAA”width =” “height =””/> The Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Range (the roughly L-shaped configuration near the center of the image) is approximately 3,900 miles long. For comparison, it is the west coast of North America on the right. Credit: NOAA Imagine placing a stone on a piece of hanging cardboard. If the cardboard is sturdy and plentiful, […]