Volcanoes have erupted in the past, and will continue to erupt in the future.
It was an otherworldly place: bleak, windswept, and with a landscape dominated by active volcanoes.
Spewing volcanoes and forbidding lava fields make for a land of beautiful, barren expanses and infinite adventure.
Neighbouring Los Nevados National Park features crystal mountain lakes and eight volcanoes, including two above 5, 000m.
There is not yet even a science for predicting when faults and volcanoes will let loose.
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The volcanoes are Pavlof and Cleveland, both in the Aleutian Island range southwest of mainland Alaska.
The conclusion was that volcanoes may have a greater cooling effect than previously recognised.
They expose how tectonic action is dragging giant volcanoes into a chasm in the seabed.
But harnessing this power, by drilling deep holes into volcanoes, turns out to be dangerous business.
Spanish America, with its volcanoes and jungles, had been well plundered but never really known.
Then came New Zealand with Tongariro National Park in 1887, protecting the Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu volcanoes.
Simmons gave a speech in Hawaii last year and toured some active volcanoes.
But it's been tough to lure tourists away from the volcanoes and gondolas on the popular Strip.
Beings were captured on other planets and flown to locations near ten volcanoes or more on Earth.
Merapi and the other volcanoes of Indonesia, by contrast, are the result of two plates moving together.
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Lahar floods are among the main hazards originated by ice and snow melting during eruptions of glacier-clad volcanoes.
Dozens of volcanoes, several of which are still active, emerge throughout a 450km stretch along the Ecuadorean Andes.
But radar can be blinded by bad weather, and not all volcanoes are within range of suitable equipment.
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Volcanoes spew out huge quantities of dust, which cools the earth by shielding it from the sun's rays.
There are natural ups and downs of this greenhouse gas, which comes from volcanoes and decomposing plants and animals.
Diamonds make their way to the surface of the earth through underground volcanoes.
On Earth, the volcanoes filled the air with water vapor and carbon dioxide.
Thanks to its molten center, the Earth remains turbulent, as earthquakes, volcanoes and other natural disasters continually remind us.
Volcanoes have massive impacts on the stratospheric load of these tiny sulphate particles.
Third, one of them just happened to strike where these volcanoes were active.
Beneath the volcanoes' cones that push into the clouds, lush meadows of wild flowers look like a tourist paradise.
You see volcanoes and gorgeous rice paddies and stunning temples and unbelievable beaches.
The problem in Montserrat, simply put, is that volcanoes can sputter for years.
There is no technology to plug volcanoes which pierce the earth's crust, or to bind the faults which cause earthquakes.
ECONOMIST: Disasters are about people and planning, not nature��s pomp
The largest volcanoes might cause short-term climate change profound enough to reduce agricultural production precipitously in many places at once.
ECONOMIST: Disasters are about people and planning, not nature��s pomp
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