The Barringer meteor crater is an iconic Arizona landmark, more than 1km wide and 170 metres deep, left behind by a massive 300,000 tonne meteorite that hit Earth 50,000 years ago with a force eq...
The magnitude 7.9 earthquake that hit Nepal this morning is shocking news. For some time scientists have realised that the Kathmandu valley is one of the most dangerous places in the world, in te...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2015/04/25/why-kathmandu-was-so-vulnerable/
How is it that Earth developed an atmosphere that made the development of life possible? A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience links the origins of Earth’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere...
Britain’s warm, wet winter brought floods and misery to many living across southern England, with large parts of Somerset lying underwater for months. When in January rainfall was double the ex...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2014/05/02/global-warming-increases-risk-of-winter-flooding/
Floating pumice. Jeff Butterworth A team of scientists from the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand have modelled the fate of a huge floating raft of volcanic rocks that formed in 2012 during a...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2014/04/30/submarine-eruptions-create-huge-floating-islands/
Devastating supervolcanoes can erupt simply due to changes that happen in their giant magma chambers as they slowly cool, according to a new study. This finding marks the first time researchers h...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2014/01/14/from-synchrotron-to-super-volcano-buoyed-up-by-magma/
The joint NASA-ESA Cassini space probe, exploring Saturn and her moons, has revealed extraordinary lakes and seas of liquid methane around the north pole of Titan. Scientists associated with the ...
Rings over Etna. copyright Tom Pfeiffer – volcanodiscovery.com Volcanic Mount Sinbung in Sumatra, Indonesia, has sprung to life in a series of massive eruptions over the last few days. The volc...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2013/11/16/cool-and-hot-eruptions-worlds-apart/
Croudsourced data from dash-cams, videos and photos reveal the secrets of the Chelyabinsk asteroid. Credit: Alexeya The asteroid impact that burst over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on the morning of F...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2013/11/07/chelyabinsk-asteroid-crowdsourced-science/
Climate changes from millions of years ago are recorded at daily rates in ancient sea shells, new research shows. A synchrotron X-ray microscope has revealed growth bands in plankton shells that ...
https://blogs.egu.eu/network/atomsi/2013/10/27/how-plankton-record-climate/