Less ice, more fire: Why shrinking glaciers could mean more volcanic eruptions

Print section Print Rubric:  Why shrinking glaciers could mean more volcanic eruptions Print Headline:  Less ice, more fire Print Fly Title:  Volcanology and glaciology UK Only Article:  standard article Issue:  How—and why—to end the war in Yemen Fly Title:  Less ice, more fire Main image:  Hot to trot Hot to trot AT THE end of the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago, Earth's climate began warming rapidly. As the planet heated up, its vast glaciers fell back. Almost immediately afterwards (in geological terms, at least) volcanic activity surged. That was nothing new. The geological record has plenty of evidence of big glacial retreats that are followed by more frequent volcanic eruptions. Glaciers, in other words, seem to suppress volcanoes, which, by the same token, flourish in their absence. This, at least, is the case for really big climatic swings. What ...

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