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Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still. That s perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6,000 years, give or take a year or two. The glow from the bubbling hot lava spewing out of the Fagradalsfjall volcano can be seen from the outskirts of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík, 32 kilometres away. For others around the world, there s always the live feed. But this is the Reykjanes Peninsula’s first eruption of any volcano in around 800 years, and nothing quite matches the exhilaration of bearing witness to Planet Earth s raw power up close and personal. Fagradalsfjall itself is made up of the Icelandic words for “beautiful valley mountain.” ....
The melting of Earth's crust beneath a vast expanse of western North America is baffling researchers due to its unusual location inland. Crustal melting, which plays an important role in the [.] ....
Climate-disrupting volcanoes helped topple ancient Egypt: Study shutterstock 654844426 MARLOWE HOOD - Sun-choking debris cast off by volcanoes more than 2,000 years ago starved headwaters feeding the Nile river and hastened the downfall of ancient Egypt’s last kingdom, researchers said on Tuesday. Eruptions in the 3rd- and 1st-century BC including one of the biggest blasts in the last 2,500 years coincided with crop failures, large-scale revolts, and the withdrawal of Egyptian armies from the battlefield, they reported in the journal Nature Communications. Up to now, researchers had struggled to find an explanation for these events. “Volcanic eruptions may have had a central role in the eventual collapse of the Ptolemaic dynasty,” the journal noted in a summary. ....
Death toll in fire at Iraqi COVID-19 hospital surpasses 80 By SAMYA KULLABApril 25, 2021 GMT BAGHDAD (AP) The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 Sunday as anxious families searched for missing relatives and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence. The flames, described by one witness as “volcanoes of fire,” swept through the intensive care unit of the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, which tends exclusively to COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms. Officials said the blaze, which also injured 110 people, was set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder. Nurse Maher Ahmed was called to the scene late Saturday to help evacuate patients. ....
Premium Content Could We Harness The Tremendous Power Of Deep-Ocean Volcanoes? By Tsvetana Paraskova - Apr 25, 2021, 2:00 PM CDT Scientists have found that volcanoes deep in the ocean discharge so much energy potential when they erupt that they could theoretically power the whole of the United States. Scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK have gathered data via remotely operated vehicles from deep-sea volcanic activity in the Northeast Pacific. They found that ocean volcanoes were as intriguing to study as volcanoes on land, although the observer doesn’t get as spectacular views from ocean-erupting volcanoes as from those on land. ....