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3 hrs ago | RedOrbit

Volcanoes Responsible For Coral Reef Diversity

A new study claims earthquakes and volcanoes are responsible for the diverse nature of the ocean's coral reefs.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters

4 hrs ago | NatureNews

Financial blow for Alaskan volcano monitoring

Volcanologists who monitor eruptions of Alaskan volcanoes are scrambling to cope with US federal budget cuts - even as the Pavlof volcano, 1,000 kilometres southwest of Alaska's biggest city, Anchorage, spouts a towering ash plume that is threatening plane flights.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Alaska, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geology, Science

8 hrs ago | EurekAlert!

New archaeological 'high definition' sourcing sharpens understanding of the past

A new method of sourcing the origins of artefacts in high definition is set to improve our understanding of the past.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science, Anthropology, Natural Disasters

12 hrs ago | The Atlantic

A Day in the DRC

Witnessing life in Goma, a city that's been invaded, ransacked, inundated with refugees, and flattened by a volcano -- all in the last 17 years.

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Related Topix: World News, Rwanda, Natural Disasters, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa

Tue May 21, 2013

USA Today

Alaska Air says volcanic activity not disrupting flights

Alaska Airlines says that few of its flights have been affected by the release of ashes from two volcanoes.

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Related Topix: Alaska, Natural Disasters, Dutch-Harbor, AK, Cold Bay, AK, Weather

The Beaumont Enterprise

Evacuation plans as volcano rumbles

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some near Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, World News, Mexico,

Boing Boing

What a Yellowstone supervolcano eruption would actually mean for humanity

It's kind of a "That's no moon" moment in real life - a series of discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s led geologists to realize that most of Yellowstone National Park was one giant volcanic caldera.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Geology, Science, US National Parks, Yellowstone National Park

Jerusalem Post

Erupting Alaska volcano spews ash, disrupts air travel

One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, which has been belching ash and spewing lava since last week, has forced regional flight cancellations and dusted some nearby communities with ash, scientists and local officials said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Israel, World News, Middle East

Mon May 20, 2013

FiveThirtyEight

In Transit Blog: Walkabout - 5/20: Dreamliners Lift Off; Post-Sandy Beaches Surveyed

Dreaming Again Boeing's embattled 787 Dreamliner , no longer grounded for safety concerns, returned to America's airways today.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Boeing Aircraft, Aircraft, Boeing 787, Stonington, CT, Natural Disasters

KJCT

On this day: May 20

Vasco da Gama arrives in India, Christopher Columbus dies, Norman Rockwell makes his Saturday Evening Post cover debut, HIV is discovered, and "Cheers" airs its series finale, all on this day.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, Spain, World News, Apparel, Levi Strauss, Natural Disasters

News24

Volcano ash reaches small Alaska city

Anchorage - Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward on Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Alaska, Anchorage, AK, Geology, Science

KIMO

Alaska Volcano Shoots Ash 15,000 Feet into the Air

One of Alaska's most restless volcanoes has shot an ash cloud 15,000 feet into the air in an ongoing eruption that has drawn attention from a nearby community but isn't expected to threaten air traffic.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, John Maxwell, Cold Bay, AK

Scoop

Using Mathematics to Understand Volcanoes

Unravelling the mysteries of the world around us is all in a day's work for Victoria University researcher Dr Mark McGuinness.

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Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Natural Disasters

The Guardian

Cameron had the chance to defy the 'swivel-eyed loons' and remake his ...

This week he's been exposed. There was little thinking on what modern Conservatism might be like.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Wedding

Sun May 19, 2013

CNN

Review: 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

"Star Trek Into Darkness" opens on a primitive planet, where the natives are restless and a volcano, in mid-eruption, traps First Officer Spock over a boiling ocean of lava.

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Related Topix: Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek, Natural Disasters, Zachary Quinto, Science Fiction TV, Entertainment, Television, Chris Pine, Movies

Scientific American

33 Years Ago Today...

Mount St. Helens in eruption on May 18, 1980 showing portion of crater and Mount Adams in background.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Skamania County, WA, Avalanche

Examiner.com

Stay near an active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii

Volcano National Park, at the centuries old Volcano House hotel. This hotel has been an icon of Hawaiian hospitality since 1846, and it overlooks the Halemna'uma'u Crater at the summit of the active Kilauea Volcano .

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Christian Science Monitor

Volcano ash 15,000 feet high: Could Pavlof eruption affect air travel?

For the second time in a month, a volcano in Alaska 's remote Aleutian chain has erupted, spotlighting America's most active portion of the Ring of Fire.

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KOMO News

Mount St. Helens' deadly eruption 33 years ago changed landscape

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash.--Thirty-three years ago on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted and changed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Washington, Geology, Science

AccuWeather.com

Mount Pavlof in Alaska Erupts, Spews Ash

Mount Pavlof, a volcano that is part of Alaska's Aleutian Arc, is currently erupting and sending ash 20,000 feet into the sky.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Geology, Science