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            <title><![CDATA[What Are Lava Fountains and Are They a Third Type of Volcanic Eruption?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 21:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn more about fascinating lava fountains and how high they can reach during a volcano eruption.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Examining Rocks Under the Microscope ]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how Earth scientists examine rocks? We cut them up and throw them under a microscope ... and then everything seems different.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alaska's Largest Eruptions in the Past 10,000 Years]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With Spurr rumbling near Anchorage, let's look at some of the largest eruptions in the most volcanically active state of the U.S.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[It Takes More Than Knowledge to Understand the Earth]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Humans have a funny way of thinking they are not part of the planet, but the rocks beneath our feet, the environment we inhabit and ourselves are linked forever.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Deep Time Can Help You Handle Modern Times]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes last month feels like a long time ago, but considering our planet, the long perspective can really help.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iceberg Versus Island in the South Atlantic Ocean]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Iceberg A23a is massive, slightly smaller than Long Island. It is drifting slowly towards South Georgia Island and if it reaches the island, it could wreak havoc.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Another Mystery Volcanic Eruption Source Has Been Found]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a volcano.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Calderas Across Two Worlds]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the most common features found at large volcanoes are calderas, formed by the collapse of the land due to eruption. The scale of these features varies a lot depending on if you're on Earth or Mars.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kīlauea Ends the Year With a New Summit Eruption]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[For the first time in over a year, lava is flowing inside the summit caldera of Kīlauea.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the Very Warm Temperature of the Gulf of Mexico Might Lead to the Tampa Bay Rays Moving Out of Town]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It might seem like an odd connection, but the plight of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team is directly connected to climate change.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Would Shiveluch's Current Eruptions Look Like in the United States?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is hard to compare the eruptions of remote volcano to potential blasts at more well-known volcanoes. I try to put the common explosive eruptions at Shiveluch in the context of US volcanoes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[One of Alaska's Most Famous Volcanoes May Be Waking Up]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It has been over 32 years since Mt. Spurr last erupted, but the Alaskan volcano near Anchorage is showing signs of reawakening.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Facts, Science and Trust]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Without facts we all agree upon, there can be no science ... and without science, who can we trust?]]></description>
            <author>Erik Klemetti</author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Magma Feeding the Eruption in Iceland Has a Complicated Past]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The eruption at Sundhnúkur in Iceland has been going for over 10 months and we're starting to understand how the magmatic system feeding it works. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Earth Might Have Been a Ringed Planet Long Ago]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The gas giants in the outer solar system are the homes to ring systems today, but almost half a billion years ago, our planet may have had a temporary ring, too.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Tour of the Cascades from Space: California]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We wrap up our tour of the Cascade volcanoes with a trip to the three southernmost members, including the biggest and maybe the weirdest.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Hike on Active Volcanoes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It feels like it goes without saying, but people get injured and die when they decide to trek up restless volcanoes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Large Steam Explosion Rocks Biscuit Basin at Yellowstone (but Don't Panic!)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Steam explosions are one of the biggest potential hazards at Yellowstone Caldera. Today, one of the largest explosions in years hit the Park.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Scientific Research Gets Published]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It might seem mysterious, but the process of getting scientific results to become scientific papers straightforward ... but needs some improvements.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Asteroids Are Turning Out to be More Complicated Than We Expected]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There may have been a former "Ocean World" in our solar system that met an untimely demise based on samples returned from Bennu.]]></description>
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