Residents are wearing masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that is blanketing several Indonesian villages as ...

Jet engines are highly complex machines designed to function in environments free of debris and corrosive gases, and the effects of volcanic ash have severely endangered safety on flights that ...

In the process, they may undergo chemical reactions on the surface of the ash itself—possibly pulling around 43% more sulfur dioxide out of the air. Ash, in other words, may hasten the transformation ...

Volcanic ash effects on Earth systems Date: October 4, 2023 Source: Cornell University Summary: To bridge the knowledge gap between volcanologists and atmospheric scientists working on climate ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in Italy in 79AD, it buried the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum – and hundreds of scrolls – in volcanic ash. Now, thanks to one student’s machine learning model ...

Ash breakdown. During a June 2011 eruption, the Nabro volcano in Eritrea shot ash into the sky (seen in the satellite image at left). A computer algorithm analyzed some of the clouds in the area ...

Ash fell across more than a dozen municipalities over the weekend. Volcano Popocatepetl lies near Puebla, about 45 miles southwest of Mexico City. CNN reported 25 million people live within a 60 ...

We were looking for the cloud that had caused it but didn't know it was a volcanic ash cloud. "We glided the aircraft about 80 nautical miles and went down 37,000 feet to about 12,000 feet.