On Sunday, the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma erupted. The hot, thick, fast-moving lava is flowing to the sea, slowly but surely. There’s a lot in its way. Thousands have been evacuated, many homes have been destroyed, more des…
36,000 gigatons of carbon heralded history’s biggest mass extinction
New insights into the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago.
火山の噴火は、小規模でも世界を大混乱に陥れる:研究で特定された「危機地点」の存在
火山が噴火すると、場所によっては火山灰や津波などの影響でインフラが壊滅的な被害を受ける危険性がある──。そんな研究結果が、このほど公表された。なかでも地震活動の監視などの注意が求められるのは、重要なインフラが近接している7カ所の「危機地点」だ。
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“The volcano… is not performing today.”
Tom Scott tried to film an Icelandic volcano and it was a complete disaster (Fagradalsfjall eruption previously). Tom Scott is no stranger to Iceland, having made a number of YouTube videos there, including when he went to check whether the northernmos…