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Washington's congressional delegates, land management agency officials and local political leaders celebrated the Columbia Land Trust's decade of work to conserve 20,000 acres of forestland near Mount St. Helens. Several speakers at Monday's event described the Mount St. Helens Forest Conservation project as an example of successful collaboration by different groups around a large and challenging goal.
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A burning chunk of lava plummeted down and punctured the roof of an offshore Hawaiian tour boat yesterday , injuring 23 people who likely weren't expecting to get up close and personal with a lava bomb. The so-called bomb - named because of the rounded, aerodynamic, bomb-like shape the lava takes as it hurtles through the air - punctured the metal roof of a Lava Ocean Tours vessel shortly after 6 a.m. local time, the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources reported.
The ash plume from Guatemala's Volcan de Fuego, as captured on June 3, 2018, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the NASA/NOAA/DoD Suomi NPP satellite. Volcan de Fuego , which lies about 40 miles southwest of Guatemala City, has been simmering for years, occasionally flaring up with bouts of dramatic activity.
Lava bubbling to the surface on Hawaii's Big Island is the hottest and most fluid it's been since Kilauea erupted four weeks ago - measuring at least 1,652 degrees Fahrenheit with no upper limit in sight, a volcanologist with the USGS warned Thursday. Stovall said scientists haven't been measuring the center but instead measured the pieces that have broken off and were in the process of cooling.
Poland's police say they have arrested a Nigerian man who is wanted in the United States for alleged cyberfraud and extortion done over the internet totaling an estimated $7 million. . Dania Beach Ocean Rescue lifeguard Michael Vasta paddles out, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, as his colleague Peter Fournier watches from a beach tower in Dania Beach, Fla.
Lava from the Kilauea volcano covered at least one well Sunday at a geothermal power plant on the Big Island, according to a Hawaii County Civil Defense report. The well was successfully plugged in anticipation of the lava flow, and a second well 100 feet away has also been secured, according to the report.
In this May 24, 2018 photo from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, lava erupts from a fissure in the Leilani Estates neighborhood near Pahoa on the island of Hawaii. Three lava flows from eruptions of Kilauea volcano are now flowing into the ocean off Hawaii's Big Island.
Lava was caught on camera spouting out of the ground in Leilani Estates, on Hawaii's Big Island, on Wednesday. The Kilauea volcano has opened more than 20 vents in the ground that have released lava, sulfur dioxide and steam.
A third lava flow from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano streamed into the ocean on Thursday as U.S. Marines Corps helicopters stood by to evacuate a Big Island community should molten rock or huge cracks block its final escape route. Six huge fissures sent rivers of molten rock through a blackened, volcanic wilderness that was once jungle, farmland and rural homes.
It came after the volcano had sent lava flows into neighborhoods 25 miles to the east of the summit and destroyed at least 26 homes since May 3. "Trying to understand when a volcano is going to stop erupting is nearly impossible, because the processes driving that fall below the surface and we can't see them." said volcanologist Janine Krippner of Concord University in West Virginia.
People watch as ash rises from the summit crater of Kilauea volcano, Thursday, May 17, 2018, in Volcano, Hawaii. . This Thursday, May 17, 2018 image provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a view of the ash plume resulting from an early morning explosion at Kilauea Volcano, in Hawaii.
Stephenson says the company made a "big mistake" in hiring President Donald Trump's attorney Michael Co... The state Department of Justice has again concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist reveal no evidence of election fraud. The state Department of Justice has again concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist reveal no evidence of election fraud.
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