Some bubbles grow to be more than a quarter-mile across. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- As a geophysicist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, John Lyons spends much of his days ...

(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...

Whenever reference is made to the mud volcano in Tabaquite, people generally respond “Oh yes, Piparo”. Though Piparo is ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was ...

On May 29, 2006, a torrent of mud spewed from vents that opened up in the ground in a densely populated area of the Indonesian island of Java. That mudflow eventually buried houses, businesses and ...

Can a bubbling pool of mud really predict a volcanic eruption? That's the commonly held belief around the town of Paternò, Sicily, where residents think heightened activity at a gurgling pool of mud ...

The Davis-Schrimpf seep field is located about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Palm Springs, Calif., at an elevation of 230 feet (70 meters) below sea level. Here, carbon dioxide gases gurgle to ...

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For 3 months a sea of hot mud has been gushing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java, 35 kilometres south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya. The steaming mud pool is growing at an ...

PORT BLAIR: (Oct 3) Dormant for more than two decades, India's only mud volcano at Baratang in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has again erupted, an official said on Friday. The volcano erupted with a ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, ...