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There's bigger trouble ahead from Icelandic volcanoes as the world heats up, scientists warn
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This may just be the start of it. For vulcanologists are warning that there may be more, or bigger, Icelandic eruptions – like the one that has shut down air traffic in Europe for days – over the next decades as the world heats up. They say that melting icecaps, by taking a great weight off the surface, are likely increasingly to free magma from deep underground.
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Catastrophe in North Korea
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North Korea is as absolute a tyranny as the human imagination can devise. But its totalitarianism, quasi-religious veneration of personality and literal necrocracy (Kim Il Sung, the head of state, died in 1994) are not just outlandish aspects of an impenetrable state. They are part of a permanent humanitarian catastrophe that threatens to become unimaginably worse. Calls for international diplomacy to alleviate the plight of a threatened, maltreated and starving people are routine and rarely observed. This one must be, and the chances of its succeeding depend on the one state that has potential leverage: China.
Major Breakthrough With Water Desalination System
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Alex Bartman (Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering graduate student) working with the Mini-Mobile-Modular (M3) Water Filtration and Desalination System. The M3 can process up to 12, 000 gallons of water per day. The system can be used for both brackish water and seawater desalination. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of California - Los Angeles)
ScienceDaily — Concern over access to clean water is no longer just an issue for the developing world, as California faces its worst drought in recorded history. According to state's Department of Water Resources, supplies in major reservoirs and many groundwater basins are well below average. Court-ordered restrictions on water deliveries have reduced supplies from the two largest water systems, and an outdated statewide water system can't keep up with population growth.
Europe struggles with Muslim dress code
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Medvedev faces a hard sell in Latin America
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When President Dmitri Medvedev planned his forthcoming trip through Latin America, Russia seemed poised to present one of the most visible challenges in years to U.S. influence in the region.
With oil prices high, Russia was flush with cash and planning a range of measures, from helping Venezuela build a nuclear reactor to strengthening military ties with Cuba, a Cold War ally of the Soviet Union.
