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Costa Rica volcano erupts, national park evacuatedSan Jose (AFP) May 24, 2010 Costa Rica's Arenal volcano erupted Monday, spewing geysers of lava, ash and toxic gases from its crater and forcing the evacuation of the national park where it is located, authorities said. The 1,633-meter-tall (5,450 foot) cone-shaped mountain in northern Costa Rica shuddered into activity at midday (1800 GMT), issuing eight successive rivers of lava that flowed down its steep slopes, National Volcanology and Seismology Observatory expert Elicer Duarte told AFP. He said nobody was at risk fro ... read more |
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Woods Hole MA (SPX) May 24, 2010How high is the sky? Scientists have a pretty good handle on that one, what with their knowledge of the troposphere, stratosphere an the other "o-spheres." Now, thanks to new work headed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), they are closing in on the other half of that age-old query: How deep is the ocean? They're also tackling an even more intriguing-if less romantic-questi ... more  
Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 24, 2010In the 1990s the European Commission approved a series of management measures to avoid the over-exploitation of fishery resources. A study carried out by the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) now reveals that the Common Fisheries Policy in Europe has promoted the extension of the European fleet into more vulnerable eco-systems such as deep waters. However, the next reform of the fishery ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 24, 2010Water is vital for life as we know it. But not all water has life living in it. By combing through data from extreme environments, researchers have found the limits of what constitutes habitable water conditions on our planet. This could help us figure out what types of water on other planets would be more likely to host life. The guiding principle in our current search for alien biology i ... more |
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Walker's World: Euro's crisis deepensMilan, Italy (UPI) May 24, 2010 German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke the obvious when she declared last week that "If the euro fails, Europe fails." The trouble is that not one of the available ways to fix the euro problem yet appears to be politically possible. Merkel knows this, which is why she went on to say, "The current crisis facing the euro is the biggest test Europe has faced for decades, even since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957." There are three essential problems here. The first is that the euro mi ... read more |
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