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Erupting a staggering one million cubic kilometres of rock, it may have played a key role in cooling the global climate around 65 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

Erupting supervolcanoes destabilized ecosystems, plunging the planet’s living things into a series of extinctions over the course of a million years and permanently changing life on Earth.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

Erupting from hundreds of light-years away, the flash of x-rays and gamma rays probably did no harm on Earth.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 15, 2021

Erupting across six city blocks like a limestone mountain range, the Zendai Himalayas Centre will be Ma’s most literal interpretation yet of his philosophy of fusing architecture and nature.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Erupting out of my nose and mouth in a flood of snot, the first sob was followed by another, then another and another.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer