What Happens When You Bomb a Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 19, 2021
The Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands began erupting in September 2021, and has been doing so for...
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Mount Tambora And The Year Without a Summer
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 16, 2021
Volcanic eruptions can change the planet’s climate. During major eruptions, huge amount of volcanic ash are released into the upper atmosphe...
The Buried Village of Te Wairoa
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 10, 2020
Until the late 19th century, the shores of Rotomahana, in northern New Zealand, were adorned by one of the most spectacular travertine terra...
The White Volcanoes of Harrat Khaybar
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 25, 2019
Of the millions of pilgrims that visit the holy city of Medina, in Saudi Arabia, every year to pray in the Prophet’s Mosque, few people are ...
The Photographers Who Braved Mount St. Helens
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2019
When Mount St. Helens erupted in the morning of May 18, 1980, a freelance photographer named Robert Landsberg was within four miles of the s...
How Solitary Confinement Saved Ludger Sylbaris From The Deadliest Volcanic Eruption
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 13, 2018
At the northern end of Martinique, a French overseas island in the eastern Caribbean sea, stands Mount Pelée, a volcano that famously erupte...
The Mountain That Japan Hid From The World
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2018
Photo credit: 663highland/Wikimedia Inside the Shikotsu-Toya National Park, in the island of Hokkaidō, not far from the active stratovolca...
Phlegraean Fields: The Italian Supervolcano Ready To Blow
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2018
Just to the west of Naples, in Italy, is an area riddled with craters and cones. Jets of steam and sulfurous gases vent continuously from fi...
The Chapel Inside a Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
May 29, 2018
Santa Margarida is a freato-magmatic volcano located in the Spanish county of Garrotxa, in Catalonia. Some 11,500 years ago, the earth’s cru...
The Mossy Lava Fields of Iceland
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2017
Moss is a common plant in Iceland. It grows abundantly in the mountainous region and is a special characteristic of Iceland’s lava fields. O...
The Tumuli Lava Blisters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2017
In the relatively flat Harman Valley, located between Wallacedale and Byaduk, south of Mount Napier in Victoria, Australia, are peculiar roc...
Herculaneum: Pompeii’s Less Famous Neighbor
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 4, 2017
In late August 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius blew its top off and for three days death rained down upon towns, villas and farms surrounding the volc...
The Brand New Island of Surtsey
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 28, 2017
Located about 30 kilometers off the southern coast of Iceland, lies the small island of Surtsey. It is one of the world's youngest islan...
Mount Bromo: The Hungry Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 26, 2016
Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, is the youngest of several volcanoes in the Tengger massif, and is one of Java’s most active volcanoes....
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...
Cuexcomate: A Dead Volcano You Can Climb Into
Kaushik Patowary
May 26, 2016
Located in the neighborhood of La Libertad, in the city of Puebla, Mexico, the sinter cone deposit of Cuexcomate has been mistakenly describ...
Mount Taranaki And Egmont National Park
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 14, 2016
Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island, is said to be one of the most symmetrical v...
The Awkward Mud Bath at El Totumo Mud Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 8, 2015
El Totumo Mud Volcano is located in northern Colombia in the municipality of Santa Catalina, about 50 km northeast of Cartagena. The volcani...
Lake Spirit's Gigantic Tree Trunk Mat
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 26, 2015
The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in state of Washington, was one of the most destructive events in the histo...
The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 31, 2014
On June 6, 1912, after five days of violent earthquakes on the Alaska Peninsula, one of the most gigantic eruptions of the 20th century occu...
