This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island, Antarctica. The tent is a four-cornered tepee ...

In a recent discovery, scientists found that the highest active volcano in Antarctica is emitting gold particles along with volcanic gases. Mount Erebus which is still volcanically active was ...

NEW DELHI: According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Observatory, Mount Erebus, an active volcanic peak in Antarctica, is releasing gold dust along with other materials ...

which houses an active volcano that last erupted in 1970. However, both Mount Erebus and Deception Island have only a limited number of permanent monitoring instruments due to logistical constraints.