“Volcanic activity has been shown to affect Earth’s climate in a myriad of ways,” the authors write. “One such example is that eruptions proximate to surface ice will promote ice melting. In turn, the ...

It appears that these magma bodies exist beneath volcanoes over their whole lifetime, not just during an active state.' ...

To do so, they used a thermomechanical magma chamber model and simulated a shrinking West Antarctic Ice Sheet through inputting specific pressure decreases exerted on the underlying rocks and ...

In recent years, it has become painfully evident that Earth is losing ice. Greenland's ice is shrinking, at a rate of 270 billion tons per year. And Antarctica is losing its ice, too, at a rate of ...

Magma collects inside a volcano's magma chamber before it erupts. Nyiragongo's magma chamber is located about 10 miles below the surface of the Earth.

Schematic of the thermomechanical magma chamber model with simulated ice unloading from this study. Picture: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems/A.N. Coonin et al. Melting the subsurface ice will ...

Researchers used seismic waves to identify magma chambers beneath the surface of six volcanoes of various sizes and dormancy within the Cascade Range, which includes half of the U.S. volcanoes ...

A research team used seismic waves to characterize magma chambers beneath the surface of six volcanoes of various sizes and dormancy within the Cascade Range. They found that all of the volcanoes ...

This cutting-edge technology represents a significant leap forward in sustainable energy solutions, enabling the formation and maintenance of underground magma chambers for scalable energy production.