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  • May 2008

    • Volcanic Plume Blankets S. America

      Philippine Daily Inquirer  |  May 7, 08 8:04 PM CDT

      Volcanic Plume Blankets S. America

      (Newser) - A mammoth plume of ash and smoke from a newly erupted volcano in Chile is slowly working its way across South America and now poses a health risk to the 8 million residents of Beunos Aires, AFP reports. Thousands of residents of southern Chile were evacuated Tuesday, with ash coating city streets and health officials urging people to don masks. More »

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      disaster  • Chile  • Argentina  • South America  • volcano  • volcanoes

    • Chilean Volcano Keeps Rumbling

      Associated Press  |  May 6, 08 1:53 PM CDT

      Chilean Volcano Keeps Rumbling

      (Newser) - The southern Chilean town of Chaiten has been totally evacuated after a volcano, active since Friday, belched molten lava and ash more than 12 miles high, the AP reports. Around 4,000 people have already left the area since the volcano—believed dormant for thousands of years—began acting up, and navy ships evacuated any that remained today. More »

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      disaster  • evacuation  • Chile  • volcano  • emergency responders  • volcanoes  • Michelle Bachelet

  • April 2008

    • Colombian Volcano Sends 15,000 Fleeing

      Associated Press  |  Apr 15, 08 8:17 AM CDT

      Colombian Volcano Sends 15,000 Fleeing

      (Newser) - As many as 15,000 people living near Colombia's Nevado del Huila volcano were evacuated today as the mountain spit hot ash onto the area. Officials report no injuries, but say it's too early to assess the damage or offer a prognosis for the eruption. "Other types of material could come, like lava, but we don't at the moment know the exact situation," a local authority said. More »

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      Colombia  • volcano  • volcanic activity  • volcanic ash

  • March 2008

    • Hawaiian Volcano Acting Feisty

      Honolulu Star-Bulletin  |  Mar 25, 08 2:03 PM CDT

      Hawaiian Volcano Acting Feisty

      (Newser) - Halemaumau Crater on Hawaii's Big Island is acting up—venting gas and the occasional gobbet of lava. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is classifying the activity as the crater's first eruption since 1982, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports; scientists are unsure whether the trickle could turn into a larger, more dangerous convulsion. "It might," the Observatory's head said yesterday. More »

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      Hawaii  • national park  • volcano  • Hawaiian Volcano Observatory  • Big Island

  • February 2008

    • Ecuadorian Volcano Explodes

      Associated Press  |  Feb 7, 08 3:43 AM CST

      Ecuadorian Volcano Explodes

      (Newser) - The massive Tungurahua volcano in the Ecuadoran Andes erupted in smoke and fire yesterday, forcing thousands of villagers to flee. Eleven families who refused to leave the area were removed by force as the volcano shot columns of ash six miles into the air, AP reports. Tungurahua—meaning "throat of fire" in the Quechua language—buried entire villages in a 2006 eruption. More »

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      Ecuador  • volcano  • volcanic activity

  • January 2008

    • Ancient Antarctic Volcano May Be Linked to Warming

      BBC  |  Jan 21, 08 4:03 AM CST

      Ancient Antarctic Volcano May Be Linked to Warming

      (Newser) - The discovery of what scientists are hailing as the first evidence of a volcanic eruption under Antarctica’s massive ice sheet may be linked to climate change, the BBC reports. British researchers, who discovered evidence of a volcano by analyzing radar data from an air survey, believe the eruption likely happened some 2,000 years ago and ripped through its ice ceiling, spouting steam and rocky debris into the air. More »

    • Village Flees Colombia Volcano

      Associated Press  |  Jan 18, 08 8:52 AM CST

      Village Flees Colombia Volcano

      (Newser) - A volcano erupted in southwestern Colombia last night, lighting up the night sky with lava and throwing volcanic ash miles into the sky. The mayor ordered the evacuation of the 8,000 or so people who live near Mount Galeras, but one seismologist said that most of the city is not in danger. No serious injuries have been reported, the AP says. More »

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      Colombia  • volcano

  • November 2007

    • Volcanoes Helped Doom Dinos

      LiveScience  |  Nov 13, 07 2:42 PM CST

      Volcanoes Helped Doom Dinos

      (Newser) - Not one but two catastrophic events may have spelled destruction for the Age of Dinosaurs, previously thought to have ended when an asteroid or comet struck the earth. New research suggests the prehistoric giants died off in “an unfortunate coincidence of a one-two punch—of Deccan volcanism and then a hit from space," said a Princeton paleontologist. More »

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      extinction  • volcano  • asteroid  • dinosaurs  • natural history

    • Yellowstone Volcanic Floor Rises

      LiveScience  |  Nov 8, 07 6:34 PM CST

      Yellowstone Volcanic Floor Rises

      (Newser) - A blob of errant magma gathering 6 miles beneath Yellowstone National Park—the same molten rock that makes Old Faithful spurt and heats the park's famous hot springs—has caused the caldera, or volcanic floor, to rise 3 inches since 2004. Scientists say that though the rate of increase is unprecedented, there is no imminent risk of eruption, LiveScience reports. More »

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      national park  • volcano  • Yellowstone

    • Thousands Defy Ash, Lava in Indonesia

      Associated Press  |  Nov 5, 07 6:28 PM CST

      Thousands Defy Ash, Lava in Indonesia

      (Newser) - Thousands are ignoring orders to evacuate as Indonesia's Mount Kelud belches smoke and spits lava, the AP reports. "I feel it is OK to stay here. No one can guarantee our safety apart from ourselves," said one local in Java. But experts have had the volcano on high alert for two weeks; one says that an eruption would be worse than in 1990, when Kelud killed 30 and injured hundreds. More »

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      disaster  • Indonesia  • volcano  • Java

  • October 2007

    • Volcano Erupts off Yemen

      CNN  |  Oct 1, 07 6:02 AM CDT

      Volcano Erupts off Yemen

      (Newser) - At least eight people were missing early today after a volcano erupted on an island off Yemen, shooting smoking lava hundreds of feet into the air and turning the sky black.  A Canadian ship in a nearby NATO fleet was participating in a search-and-rescue operation in a hunt for the missing, believed to be at sea. A military garrison on the island of Jazirt Atta-Ir was being evacuated. More »

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      NATO  • Yemen  • volcano

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