Hidden magma pools pose eruption risks that we can’t yet detect

Published: 31 May 2021

Scientists’ ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth’s crust. But what happens if the magma can’t be spotted?

Experts: Earth Day | April 22

Published: 20 April 2021

Earth Day, celebrated annually on 22 April, will again see more than 1 billion people participating in activities around the world to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis and...

Experts: Mars 2020’s Perseverance landing in Jezero Crater

Published: 19 February 2021

NASA’s science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday, February 18 and landed safely on the...

What will be the next big things in astronomy?

Published: 30 May 2019

It’s been an exciting time for astronomy lovers in the past few years: the first black hole picture amazed, many exoplanets have been discovered, gravitational waves were observed for the first...

McGill receives $5-million gift from noted Canadian geologist Bob Wares

Published: 26 September 2018

As an entrepreneurial geologist, Bob Wares, (BSc’79, DSc’12), became a mining rock star when he discovered one of Canada’s largest gold deposits in the Abitibi region of Quebec. Now, he is bringing...

EOS | Drones Swoop in to Measure Gas Belched from Volcanoes

Published: 25 July 2018

A team of volcanologists, chemists, physicists, and engineers from around the world test novel techniques at Central America’s two largest degassing volcanoes.  Read more 

Expert: Philippine Volcano Erupts

Published: 22 January 2018

Expert: Philippine Volcano Erupts...

The making of Antarctica

Published: 31 January 2017

One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed so rapidly about 34 million years ago, at the boundary between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs....

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