Could Air Travel Be Disrupted by Alaska Volcano?

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A file photo of Mt. Cleveland in Alaska's Aleutian Islands before the volcano's recent eruption. Getty Images/Scott Darsney

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska's Cleveland Volcano is undergoing a continuous low-level eruption following an explosion early Saturday morning, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Satellites and cameras suggest low-level emissions of gas, steam and ash, scientists said, and satellites detected highly elevated surface temperatures at the summit. A faint plume of ash extended eastward below 15,000 feet, but the Federal Aviation Administration said there were no flight restrictions as a result.

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Cat Feces to Blame for Dolphin Die-off?

Weather.com - 5/07/13

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Could a housecat's litter box be the culprit in the death of a marine mammal hundreds of miles away in the ocean?

The answer could be yes, according to a study released by the National Institutes of Health and first reported by Scientific American magazine in its May 2013 issue.

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Latest Earthquake Activity - May 7, 2013

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Arctic Ocean 'Rapidly Accumulating Carbon Dioxide': Report

Weather.com - 5/06/13

A handout picture provided by Greenpeace in April 2013 at the North Pole on the Arctic ocean shows the 'Save The Arctic' movement taking part in the world's largest participatory art project - the acclaimed 'Inside Out' project - by creating a unique art piece at the North Pole. Christian Aslund/AFP/Getty Images

The Arctic Ocean is rapidly becoming more acidic thanks to changes in the global carbon cycle and carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by humans, according to a report released in early May.

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East About to Be Overrun by Billions of Cicadas

Weather.com - 5/06/13

5 year old Chase Harrison holds up a cicada he caught near his home in Alexandria, Virginia in May 2004. (Image: Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. They will arrive in such numbers that people from North Carolina to Connecticut will be outnumbered roughly 600-to-1. Maybe more.

But ominous as that sounds - along with scientists' horror-movie name for the infestation, Brood II - they're harmless. These insects won't hurt you or other animals. At worst, they might damage a few saplings or young shrubs. Mostly they will blanket certain pockets of the region, though lots of people won't ever see them.

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