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...going to steal this eggbeater/15-foot metal pole/prescription medicine/broken lava lamp and then I’ll partay...
...vacation resorts of Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, the sands are as white and the sky as blue as anyone can remember. As usual, angelfish and sea tortoises swim lazily in the aqua sea; hardened lava cuts a black path down the volcanic mountainsides. Only one thing is missing: crowds of Japanese tourists...
...Tuareg folklore, the hills are alive with the sound of jealous rage. Once upon a time, a tall lava plug called Mount Amjer spurned the advances of a volcanic vixen named Mount Tioueyin and refused to leave Mount Tahat, even though Tahat was already married to another mountain. So Tioueyin did what any self-respecting monolith would do: she left town. She moved 150 km southwest and took a suitor, Mount Iherh?, with...
...Vitousek was how the world reaches out to touch even the most remote spots. In one celebrated study, he and his colleagues analyzed soil and rock chemistry at volcanic sites ranging from 300 years to 4.1 million years old. Plants at the youngest sites drew nutrients straight from weathering lava. Those at older, more depleted sites survived on minerals blown in on sea spray and in dust from central Asia, thousands of miles away. "No ecosystem is entirely isolated," he says...
...lava be stopped? Some 70 bulldozers have been used to build earthen walls to divert lava away from inhabited areas, while planes and helicopters have dropped water to slow its advance. And there's always prayer. Carmelo Cavallaro, the parish priest of Nicolosi, who led the faithful in seeking divine intercession, says, "Faith can move mountains." What he should have said: Faith can move mountains that move...