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The eruption of the volcano in Iceland, April 15, 2010, as captured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's TERRA satellite. Photo by NASA

The eruption of the volcano in Iceland intensifies. Experts: Volcanic ash is like "hard rain" of particles with a high erosion coefficient

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The fireball captured on Wednesday, 14/4/2010 at night from a web camera on the roof of a building at the University of Medicine in Wisconsin. Photo courtesy of the University and NASA's JPL Center

A meteorite fragment was discovered from the fireball that crashed on Wednesday in the USA

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Volcanic ash from the volcano eruption spreads over Britain, 15/4/2010. Photo: ENVISAT satellite of the European Space Agency

The European Space Agency photographed the ash covering Europe from the eruption of the volcano in Iceland

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Camels near a waterhole in the Sahel desert

Cyclical climate changes in the Atlantic Ocean can affect droughts in regions far away from it

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Dead zones in the Mississippi Delta in summer. Photo: NASA

Lack of oxygen (hypoxia) kills life in the sea

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Prof. J. Feinberg. The Hebrew University

Physicists from the Hebrew University formulated a new understanding of the friction process that causes earthquakes

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The Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho which was completely destroyed in the earthquake of 1927. From Wikipedia

Dr. Avi Shapira, Chairman of the Inter-ministerial Steering Committee for Earthquake Assessments:

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Location of the earthquake in Chile. 27 February 2010. Image: US Geological Survey USGS

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile. Updates

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Lightning isn't the only reason why you shouldn't go near storms - gamma ray bursts also come from there

Are intra-terrestrial gamma-ray bursts dangerous for pilots?

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dust storm

dust

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Prof. Yehoshua Kolodani

The Israel Prize for Earth Science Research will be awarded to Professor Yehoshua Kolodani from the Hebrew University

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Crystal structure of zircon from Wikipedia

The information that zircons from the earth's crust carry inside them

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Survivors of the earthquake in Haiti, January 13, 2010. Photo: user canadianecross on the Flickr website

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale struck Haiti and destroyed most of the country's houses

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Spectrometer device with peak sensitivity

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Subsiding alluvial fans

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The absorption of carbon dioxide in the oceans has slowed down

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The forgotten acid in seawater

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A method developed at Tel Aviv University for predicting floods using cellular data, the best invention in the field of safety for 2009 by Popular Science

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A large rift in Africa may become a new ocean

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Tsunami, huge water

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Antibiotics for worms?

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Earth struck twice - a day after Samoa - a 7.6 earthquake in Indonesia

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8.3 earthquake near Samoa, tsunami warning

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The slaughter of elephants increased

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The crescent is no longer fruitful

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