Eruption of the Calbuco volcano, seen from Puerto Montt.EPA/Francisco NegroniThe Calbuco volcano, a 2,000 metre peak in southern Chile, sent a column of ash about 15km skywards twice on the night of April 22 and early the following morning. As the risk of deadly flows of ash and hot air was immediate, a 20km radius evacuation zone was declared.
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_That_ good? Amen to that.toaireisdivine, CC BY“Comparison is the thief of joy”, said former US president Theodore Roosevelt. Spoken more than a century ago, Roosevelt’s words highlight a fundamental truth that is just as relevant today.
In the 1950s, the acclaimed social psychologist, Leon Festinger, devised the social comparison...
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I've been underestimated for too long.alh1/flickr, CC BY-NDSeismologists have discovered a massive magma reservoir beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming, US, that suggests its volcanic system could be more than 5.6 times larger than was previously thought.
Although it was already known that Yellowstone had one magma reservoir, located...
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