By Jim Brace-Thompson
Per a recent article in the journal Science, Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo refuses to leave the headlines....
By Jim Brace-Thompson
A new U.S. Forest Service (USFS) road project near the notorious Mount St. Helens stratovolcano in Washington is in the planning stage....
By Jim Brace-Thompson
Watching the nightly news on television, I was startled by reports of a volcanic eruption near the major city of Goma (population...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
Iceland is an island nation sitting directly astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This ridge is an extremely long crack in the Earth’s shell...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
For some 90 years, paleobotanists have known about an ancient group of plants known as Noeggerathiales from 325 to 251 million years...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
In early April 2021, torrential rains from a tropical cyclone unleashed flash floods and mudslides that devastated parts of eastern Indonesia. Initial...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
In the movie “Waterworld,” actor Kevin Costner inhabits a post-apocalyptic Earth awash with water some 500 years from now. The premise is...
By Jim Brace-Thompson
After lying more-or-less dormant for 42 years, La Soufrière volcano, standing 4,003 feet high, let loose on the eastern Caribbean island of...