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Volcanoes Today, 4 Apr 2013: Etna, Grozny, Lascar, El Hierro

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Lava fountain from Etna's New SE crater during the 9th paroxysm (Photo: Boris Behncke)

Lava fountain from Etna's New SE crater during the 9th paroxysm (Photo: Boris Behncke)

 

Etna (Sicily, Italy): As expected, Etna's New SE Crater produced a new episode of lava fountaining (paroxysm) on 3 April 2013. It was the 34th paroxysm since January 2011 at Etna and according to eyewitnesses, it was the loudest such eruption ever witnessed in recent years. "Especially toward the end, Etna thundered, growled, howled, yelled like a gigantic beast in agony. It almost hurt your ears at a distance of 6.4 km."
The build-up phase lasted several hours, and produced many extremely powerful explosions of exploding liquid lava bubbles that threw bombs to all over the New SE crater cone.

 

Cold Temps Create Late Season for Chesapeake Crabs

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Weather.com - 4/03/13, Pamela Wood

A box full of Maryland blue crabs. Cold temperatures have created a late start to the traditional Chesapeake Bay crab season. Medford Taylor/Getty Images

ANNAPOLIS, Md.  — For months, there's been a countdown on the Maryland Seafood website, ticking down the months, days, hours, minutes and even seconds to the most anticipated seafood season of the year: crabbing season.


Monday marks the start of crabbing for both commercial watermen and recreational crabbers who seek the sweet meat of Maryland's blue crabs. But don't expect local crabs to be abundant at seafood markets, crab shacks and crab houses just yet.

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Deadly Flooding Kills Dozens in Argentina

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A car shows signs of having spent time under water following floods in the neighborhood of Nunez in Buenos Aires.

LA PLATA, Argentina— At least 46 people were killed by flooding overnight in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, the governor said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll from days of torrential rains to at least 52 and leaving large stretches of the provincial capital under water.

Gov. Daniel Scioli said many people drowned after trying to take shelter in their cars in Tolosa, an area of the provincial capital of La Plata. Heavy rains had killed at least six people in the nation's capital of Buenos Aires the day before.

Chicago, Duluth: Coldest April Fools' Day Since 1993

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The arctic air plunging into the Midwest is leading to the coldest April Fools' Day in years, even decades for some.

Easter Sunday went down in history books as a chilly one for the Upper Midwest due to the arctic air's arrival, while temperatures remain mild across the eastern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.

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Sheep Struggle to Survive Freezing Conditions (PHOTOS)

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Weather.com - 4/02/13, Camille Mann, Edecio Martinez

Sheep gather for their morning feed at Bleathgill Farm in following heavy snow on March 27, 2013, near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England. (Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Across the UK, farmers are struggling to save their livestock after freezing temperatures and heavy snow have left thousands of cattle and sheep stuck in the fields with no food and fresh water.

James Evans, a sheep farmer in Bishops Castle, England, told BBC News that newborn lambs are being born in freezing temperatures. He expects to lose about 4 to 5 percent of the 1,500 newborns.

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Hail Storm Pelts Texas Town

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Weather.com - 4/03/13, Becky KellogHitchcock, Tex.

Windows were blown out at homes and business in Hitchcock, Tex. in the early morning hours of Wed., April 3 after massive hail pelted the area. (Courtesy: Mark Boyle/KPRC)

Softball-sized hail rained down on a community in Texas in the early morning hours of Wed., April 3 leaving significant damage in its wake.  The hail shattered windows in buildings and cars in Hitchcock, Tex.

The Hitchcock, Texas Police Dept. says 7 of its 11 police cars were seriously damaged by the hail.  Several trailer parks also sustained heavy damaged as well as a church and fire station.

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More Than a Million Dead from Pollution in China

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Weather.com - 4/02/13, Sean Breslin

A masked Chinese man walks past a woman wrapping her head with a scarf on a street as the capital city is hit by polluted air and a sandstorm in Beijing, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

We've seen the pictures of choking smog and pollution in China, but it might be far worse -- and far more deadly -- than originally thought.

According to a story from the New York Times, 1.2 million premature deaths occurred in 2010 alone from Chinese pollution, accounting for 40 percent of global pollution deaths. The report goes on to project that by the year 2050, dirty air will kill 3.6 million people per year, mostly in China and India, which would surpass dirty water and lack of sanitation as the biggest environmental killer.

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