From sites housing deadly materials to the locations of precious artefacts, here's the science behind some of Earth's most restricted areas ...

In 1963, fishermen off the southern coast of Iceland saw something unusual. The sea was bubbling and smoking. Within days, dark rock began rising above the surface. A volcanic eruption had started ...

In 1963, an unexpected volcanic eruption off the coast of Iceland changed the shape of the world forever: It created the world’s youngest island, Surtsey, named after a giant in Norse mythology.

Earth has numerous magical places that charm our eyes and soothe our minds. Ones that seem like a fiction movie. But apart from this, there are also places that are so hazardous, protected, or vital ...

(via SciShow) The island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland popped up basically in a week, and it's been a perfect natural experiment for ecologists. See, a new island means a sterile ecosystem that ...

THE PRIMEVAL fury of creation is an awesome sight-even on a miniature scale. When a volcano erupts, the same elements are released which long ago tempered the continents. Thus it was that three years ...

When Surtsey erupted from the sea in 1963, it became a living experiment in how life begins anew. Decades later, scientists discovered that the plants colonizing this young island weren’t carried by ...

When the island of Surtsey erupted from the sea in 1963, it became a natural experiment in how life begins. A new study overturns long-held assumptions about how plants reach such isolated lands.

A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey Island shows that birds carried most of the plants that colonised the island, challenging long-held beliefs that seed or fruit shape determines how plants spread ...

A man looking at an island off the coast. A typical morning in Surtsey likely looks like this. A black-backed gull patrolling the shorelines swoops for a fish flopping in and out of the water.

Surtsey, a volcanic island off the southern coast of Iceland, is one of nature’s rarest phenomena. When it erupted in 1963, scientists were presented with an unprecedented opportunity: to observe how ...