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...majestic animal whose significance is grossly underrated by any confusion with a penguin. Its remarkably well-documented path to extinction is a point of great interest for Berry; history reveals that fishermen killed the last pair of Great Auk in 1844 on the island of Eldey off of Iceland. “It really is an icon of extinction, this beautiful, beautiful bird,” Berry says. “You know those bumper stickers ‘Extinction is Forever’? For me you only need a picture of the Great...
...after last week’s volcano eruption in Iceland made it impossible for him to fly to Germany, Kaplan instead ended up in Dubai—where the daytime temperature reached 100 degrees—with “a whole duffel bag full of warm weather hiking clothes,” he said...
Physics Professor Gerald Gabrielse’s trip to north of the Arctic Circle in Finland to give the opening talk of a conference placed him “right in the path of the unexpected volcanic dust from Iceland,” he wrote in an e-mail to his quantum mechanics class...
...caused a mild panic on flights already airborne. Kuenga Wangmo, a doctoral student at Cambridge University, was on a British Airways flight from Delhi to London when she learned of the news. "I was woken up when the captain announced that British airspace was contaminated by ash from an Icelandic volcano," she says. "I had no idea what was happening. Some of the passengers were nervous, especially those flying on to Canada." Wangmo's flight was one of the last to land at Heathrow on Thursday. (Read "Why Iceland's Volcano Is a Hazard for Air Travel...
Read "Air Travel Fallout Spreads From Iceland Volcano...