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It is newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 8am in bali in indonesia, where authorities have raised the threat of a volcanic eruption to the highest level that means it could happen in the next 2a hours. The volcano in question is mount agung. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. There are fears of a full scale eruption for the First Time Since 1963, when about 1,600 people were killed. Tiffany wertheimer has the latest. Indonesians are used to sites like this, rubber and has rumbled back to life, once again spewing black ash high into...

A fiery chasm burns in the Turkmenistan desert, but with the climate crisis worsening, the Darvaza gas crater (known as the Gates to Hell) could soon be plugged

The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan has been burning continuously for decades, fueled by flammable methane gas from vast underground stores.

The Caspian Sea Exploded Into a Towering Inferno, And The Cause Was Entirely Natural HARRY BAKER, LIVESCIENCE 7 JULY 2021 A towering inferno, hundreds of feet tall, burned above the Caspian Sea on Sunday (July 4) after a massive explosion in Azerbaijan's oil and gas fields. The culprit? A mud volcano, authorities now say.   The blast occurred around 9:30 pm local time (1:30 pm ET, 5:30 pm UTC) around 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the Umid gas field, which is 45 miles (75 km) off the coast of Azerbaijan's capital Baku, and it continued to burn into Monday morning, according to the BBC. Loc...

Huge explosion as Azerbaijan mud volcano erupts BBC   A huge explosion has been seen off the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea, sending plumes of black smoke and flames into the sky. The blast, which erupted in an area full of oil and gas fields on Sunday, was caused by a mud volcano, the government says. None of the oil farms were damaged and no-one was hurt, it added. Mud volcanoes are formed underground by water, minerals and flammable gases, which can ignite when they erupt. Videos shared online showed a fireball and smoke rising above the sea on Sunday.