Supervolcanoes have produced some of the largest eruptions in history. There are 20 supervolcanoes on Earth, including the two above. They can displace so much material that they are classed as V8 ...

Now, it's extremely unlikely that one of these supervolcanoes would go off anytime soon, let alone multiple eruptions at once. But, for curiosity's sake, what would happen if all the world's ...

which may have made it more sensitive to the carbon dioxide expelled by supervolcanoes. “The end-Permian is the biggest crisis in Earth’s history from life’s standpoint, but I don’t think ...

To an unsettling degree, it is very much alive. There are volcanoes, and then there are supervolcanoes. The latter have no agreed-on definition—the term was popularized in a BBC documentary in ...

Some of the world's biggest challenges, including climate change and political violence, extend far beyond any one nation's borders. Global catastrophes can occur for a number of reasons, and the ...

It was also one of only about 50 supervolcanoes to have erupted since man walked the planet, none of which have occurred in recorded history. Its existence was only unveiled in 2012 when ...

How does natural resource extraction impact the Earth system? From tracking how a harmful algal bloom develops along our coastline to learning how supervolcanoes form deep within the Earth, a degree ...

They are the biggest animals to have walked the Earth, with some weighing as much as a space shuttle. However, it is unclear how dinosaurs grew to such massive proportions. A new dinosaur ...

Their research breaks new ground in material construction, ocean acidification, and supervolcanoes, and broadens our understanding of how Earth's oceans and terrestrial ecosystems are being changed by ...