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Long-Dormant Volcano in Iceland Awakens in Fiery Eruption
A long-dormant volcano erupted on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday, shooting a fountain of lava that lit the night sky roughly 30 kilometres southwest of the nation’s capital, the Icelandic Meteorological Office reported Friday. The eruption, estimated to be the peninsula’s first in almost 800 years, follows weeks of increased seismic activity in the region.
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WallStreetsBets Is Sending Gorilla Conservation to the Moon ????????????????????????
The WallStreetBets subreddit has helped drive $US383,000 ($491,389) in donations to a gorilla conservation organisation this week. The preceding sentence would have been barely intelligible even just last December, and yet here we are.
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The Myth of ‘Clean Coal’ Might Finally Die
As coal goes down the drain, so, too, are inefficient programs to prop it up. Earlier this week, the investigative arm of U.S. Congress, the Government Accountability Office, said it would look into the “clean coal” tax credit, which generates $US1 ($1.3) billion in income for producers around the U.S. each year. But it’s unclear…
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Plant Fossils Found on a Cold War Expedition Contain an Ominous Climate Message
Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise. A study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists says that plant fossils found in a sample of dirt collected from a…