All of it, gone with the wind now. What a wild volcano weekend it has been thus far! (Am writing this Saturday evening.) A seismologist
Category: Disasters
Guest Video: Fukushima Reactor, Ten Years Later
Update, April 13, 2021: Per Reuters, Japan announced today that it will release the contaminated water into the ocean, after cleaning it as much as
Mount Pelee
This Caribbean volcano is no relation of the Hawaiian fire goddess. Known as Bald Mountain because of its rocky summit, it acquired the nickname pelé,
Ten Years Ago Today . . .
. . . Indonesian volcanologists, civil authorities, and others began the process that eventually saved an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 lives. They did this by
Repost: Guest Videos: Recovery After A Fire (or the K/T Extinction)
I did this last April, as our wildfire season began; it’s timely now in view of the terrible bushfire season that Australia has been experiencing.
Repost: The Deccan Traps and the Dinosaurs
Update: A new study reportedly has found that the timing of the eruption didn’t coincide with the K/T (K/Pg) extinction. I don’t know — there
