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Volcanos Blamed for Mass Extinction

Madhuri Katti — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:45:55 +0000

Scientists feel volcanic eruption on seafloor triggered mass extinction millions of years ago...

The Angry Planet: Should we ignore it as natural?

Vikas Shekhawat — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:44:11 +0000

The frequency of recent natural disasters, including the cyclone in Burma, an earthquake in China, tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma and Georgia, volcano eruptions in Chile, fires in Florida and Colorado, forces us to ponder why is the...

Spaceship of Life

Warren Hayashi — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:24:06 +0000

Mother Earth is screaming for a cessation to human progress on spaceship Earth. Lately, she has been erupting, storming, sliding, and shifting in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the human virus infecting her body. The current, and on...

What made the Mighty Nile shrink? Blame the faraway Volcanoes?

Irani — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:41:02 +0000

More than two centuries ago famine struck in Africa hard following record low levels of water in the Nile River. Surprisingly, faraway volcanic eruptions have been found to be responsible for the calamity according to a new study! A cascade...

Sulphur Emissions to Reduce Global warming?

Kanchan — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:15:44 +0000

Paul Crutzen , Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry in 1995, of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, suggests infusing the stratosphere (above the troposphere and directly below the mesosphere, it has a stratified temperature) with...

Lava Rock Can Be Used To Check Global Warming

Irani — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:09:02 +0000

We have discussed earlier that violent volcanic eruptions help to combat some of the effects of global warming by cooling the Earth and keeping a check on rises in sea level. But, this did not seem to satisfy the scientists at this point. They...

Volcanic Eruptions Curb Global Warming

Irani — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:25:40 +0000

We have discussed in our astronomy blog spacescan.org earlier that volcanic eruptions have led to mass extinction of several species in the prehistoric period. But, it proves friendly towards combating or rather controlling global warming, which in...