Huge Monster Crater!!! Lava Explosions on another World – Iceland Volcano Eruption – 17 May 2021
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Icelandic volcanic eruption – an awesome display of elemental power
Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never standstill. That’s perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6000 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…
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California Drought: Santa Rosa Officials Make 20 Percent Cut In Water Usage Voluntary For Now
SANTA ROSA (CBS SF/BCN) — In the grip of extreme drought, the Santa Rosa City Council has asked residents to voluntarily reduce their water consumption by 20 percent. The request comes weeks after the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors declared the region under a drought emergency. In doing so, county officials pointed out that Lake…
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Powerful Earthquake Rocks Iran Causing Vast Destruction
A shallow magnitude 5.3 earthquake was reported early morning near Bojnurd, North Khorasan, Iran. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the quake hit on Monday 17 May 2021 at 3:04 am local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. Shallow earthquakes are felt more strongly than deeper ones as they are…
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The Japanese Public Wants Out of the Olympics. Everyone Else Says No.
Some two months away, organizers of the Tokyo Games face mounting pressure to postpone yet again. More than 15,000 athletes from over 200 countries are expected to make their way to Japan in time for the Olympics starting July 24. But as the date nears, pressures on the host country to postpone the Tokyo Games for a…
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Asian supply chain pact takes aim at China
A move by India, Japan and Australia last month to collectively boost supply chain resilience could eventually squeeze China out of the trios’ supply chains for sectors such as semiconductors, batteries and rare earths, experts say. The Indian, Japanese and Australian trade ministers announced the Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI) following a video call on…
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Taiwan Steps up COVID-19 Alert, Shutters Non-Essential Workplaces
Mask-wearing is compulsory indoors and outdoors, and social gatherings are strictly limited. A local resident listens to a medical staff before queueing up for the COVID-19 virus testing at the Wanhua District in Taipei, Taiwan, May 19, 2021. -AFP The democratic island of Taiwan on Wednesday moved into a Level 3 coronavirus alert as a community outbreak…
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Israel Gaza conflict: Netanyahu says strikes to ‘continue at full force’
Israel’s military operation against Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza will continue “with full force”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. “We are acting now, for as long as necessary, to restore calm… It will take time,” Mr. Netanyahu warned. Gaza officials said 42 people, including 16 women and 10 children, died in the latest Israeli…
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Biden holds West Wing meeting with six illegal immigrants, ‘We are home’
Six DACA recipients, sometimes called “Dreamers,” were invited to the Oval Office. President Biden invited a group of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipients in the Oval Office Friday amid a push for immigration reform in Washington. Biden, facing a mounting migrant crisis at the southern border, is working to extend the DACA program, an Obama-era effort…
