It seemed like yesterday, the day I first discovered volcanic winter while conducting research on the infamous 1993 “storm of the century,” and some passing weather enthusiast had brought up ...

This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US?

By Jean-Marie Prival, doctor in volcanology and founder of kīpuka magazine Like other natural disasters, volcanic eruptions can have an impact on civilizations. Of course they can annihilate them, but ...

It seemed to come out of nowhere. In the midst of a quiet interlude, after the hugely damaging La Palma had ended, when the hugely touristic eruption at Fagradalsfjall failed to re-appear, and the ...

In my last article I wrote about the Turkana, volcanism that is part of the Great African Rift. But unbeknownst to most this is just one of several rift systems in Africa that are tearing the conti… ...

At one time, Portugal ruled the world. Its explorers discovered the Cape of Good Hope, created colonies around the Indian Ocean, reached China and Japan, founded the city of Nagasaki, and claimed m… ...

The last time I wrote an article for Volcanocafe it was a guest post about the Galapagos Islands, but now I’m a new member of the Volcanocafe writing team (a little bit more about me later). Deep in ...

And Laki was not even the largest fire on record. The Eldgja eruption which began in 934 AD was bigger, at almost 20 km 3. It happened not longer after the settlement of Iceland began – the Vikings ...

It may not come as a surprise that it is not until after the great Turkana-Omo eruption that what would in the end become Homo sapiens moved into the budding valley. And back then it apparently was as ...

The Toba eruption was twice as as Atitlan. But it produced a similar amount of sulphate in the ice cores. VEI is not everything. Climate impact With these estimates, the amount of sulphur produced by ...

The volcanic field Look from Surtsey to the direction of the Icelandic coast (see the image at the top of the post), and a plethora of small cones can be seen above the sea. These are remnants of ...

Like other volcanic arcs, the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt is located over a subduction zone. However, unlike most other volcanic arcs, which are more or less parallel to the trench where oceanic crust ...