{"id":224334,"date":"2025-10-31T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/volcanologists-confirm-dormant-alaska-volcano-emitting-sulfur-clouds-after-centuries-of-silence"},"modified":"2025-10-31T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:06:35","slug":"volcanologists-confirm-dormant-alaska-volcano-emitting-sulfur-clouds-after-centuries-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/volcanologists-confirm-dormant-alaska-volcano-emitting-sulfur-clouds-after-centuries-of-silence","title":{"rendered":"Volcanologists confirm dormant Alaska volcano emitting sulfur clouds after centuries of silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volcanologists-confirm-dormant-alaska-volcano-emitting-sulfur-clouds-after-centuries-of-silence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volcanologists say the mountain isn\u2019t erupting, yet it\u2019s stirring. The air above the ridge is turning thorny and metallic, a caution flag for pilots and a puzzle for the scientists who listen to rocks. In a place where weather already rules the day, the sky just picked up a new voice.<\/p>\n<p>The first hint wasn\u2019t dramatic. It was a smell\u2014faint, almost shy\u2014like a match just struck and blown out on an icy ridge. A pilot crossing the Aleutians radioed a hazy strip hanging off a lonely summit, not smoke, not weather, something in between. Out on the gravel bar, a field tech rubbed a gloved thumb across a thin yellow smear on late spring snow and didn\u2019t say a word. A satellite pass, then another, traced a ribbon of sulfur above open water. The mountain had gone from silence to a whisper. That whisper could carry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volcanologists say the mountain isn\u2019t erupting, yet it\u2019s stirring. The air above the ridge is turning thorny and metallic, a caution flag for pilots and a puzzle for the scientists who listen to rocks. In a place where weather already rules the day, the sky just picked up a new voice. The first hint wasn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}