Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. On February 20, 1943, the farmer Dionisio Pulido observed the ...

SAN JUAN PARANGARICUTIRO, Mexico — The ground is still hot atop the crater of Paricutin — the first volcano of its kind to have its full life cycle documented by modern science after it ...

For Dionisio Pulido and his family, Feb. 20, 1943 began as an average day of clearing and burning shrubbery from their cornfields near the village of Parícutin, Mexico to prepare for the spring ...