1720 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/science/new-research-rewrites-what-we-know-of-big-volcanic-eruptions/Scientists have re-written the histories of New Zealand eruptions - including the largest in 20,000 years - with new research that also opens up the possibility of predicting big blows decades before they happen. The new study found that carbon dioxide belched from deep below volcanoes could be....Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:18:00 +0200newstalkzb-a5fa7a7dde44c5133727f267ab4becf820181008101800https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2018/10/08/mil-osi-new-zealand-volcanic-lies-have-prehistoric-eruptions-being-lying-about-their-age/08 October 2018. Some volcanic eruptions, including the most recent large Taupo eruption in New Zealand, may be lying about their age, according to new University of Canterbury research. Beneath Lake Taupo lurks a massive volcano whose most recent eruption was later than we thought, according to new research.Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:15:00 +0200foreignaffairs-nz-9a64da7f6b77068bce002a19d1e57eda20181008071500https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139046&ref=rssThe current preferred method for eruption dating, dubbed "wiggle match dating", related sequences of dates from tree rings to a record of natural variation in the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere through time. While this could be used to pinpoint when an eruption killed the tree, it still....Mon, 08 Oct 2018 06:55:00 +0200nzherald-666ac6e8a4f107868353311a52b9916920181008065500http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/5/322828Some volcanic eruptions, including the most recent large Taupo eruption in New Zealand, may be lying about their age, according to new University of Canterbury research. A study by researchers from the University of Canterbury (UC) and a UC graduate lecturing in geoscience at the University of....Mon, 08 Oct 2018 06:14:00 +0200voxy-bd799c357a8212bd0996479504a2d6a720181008061400