Issues: Super-volcanoes
Online resources to help you understand the threats posed to humanity by super-volcano eruptions.
- New evidence suggests magma is flowing deep into the Three Sisters volcanic complex in Oregon's Cascade Range, according to scientists. [web page]
- An enormous supervolcano could be lurking beneath Alaska's islands. [web page]
- When Yellowstone next blows, we might be in trouble. [video]
- A team from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen analysed ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica and discovered a civilisation-ending magnitude 7 volcanic eruption is possible this century. [web page]
- More work is needed to anticipate and manage globally damaging volcanic eruptions, as people underestimate the dangers. [web page]
- Taming the super-volcano beast: could geo-thermal taps give us both free power AND less chance of dangerous eruptions? [web page]
- Fagradalsfjall volcano looks set to cause trouble again. [web page]
- Researchers have discovered a massive magma chamber under the surface of Yellowstone, raising concerns about the supervolcano. [web page]
- There are at least eight super volcanoes currently slumbering across Earth with the potential power to end civilisation. [video]
- Yellowstone supervolcano: A mountain range has vanished into a huge magma chamber, creating a crater. [web page]
- What danger lurks below America: Yellowstone, the brooding Supervolcano. [video]
- First successful prediction of a volcanic eruption results from supercomputer improvements. [web page]
- A volcanic explosion that plunged Earth into a cold winter 250 million years ago caused a mass extinction that wiped out 90% of life, according to a new research. [web page]
- How a volcanic eruption in ancient Australia caused the world's worst climatic disaster. [web page]
- The slowdown of continental plate movement caused the large volcanic eruptions that generated some of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth's history. [web page]
- When a supervolcano blows, it's likely to be a surprise, say scientists. [web page]
- US West Coast deploys an earthquake detection system. [web page]
