40 h. ago Indonesia volcano live: Many flights to Bali cancelled after eruption spews ash 6 miles into sky

Authorities raise highest-level alert and create 8km danger zone after eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki

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42 h. ago Massive volcano eruption in Indonesia spews ash 10,000 metres high

Indonedia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupted on Tuesday (17 June), sending a towering ash plume 10,000 metres into the sky.

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46 h. ago Indonesia volcano live: Dozens of Bali flights suspended after eruption spews ash 6 miles into sky

Authorities raise highest-level alert and create 8km danger zone after eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki

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62 h. ago Alert raised to the highest level after Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted, spewing towering columns of hot ash into the air

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5 d. ago Wild rodents, fascist warnings and a haunted carpet: Wolfman Tillmans storms the Pompidou

Pompidou Centre, ParisAs the gallery prepares to close its doors for five years, Tillmans is let loose across all 6,000 sq metres of its public library. The results are stunning – and chillingIn September the Pompidou Centre in Paris closes for five years for renovation. The building is nearly 50 years old and needs to be cleared of asbestos, and to reconnect with Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’ original design after years of architectural accumulations. Many of the departments are already moving into temporary new homes, including the huge Bibliothèque publique d’information, the public library usually based on the second floor. Nearly all of its contents have been emptied out, but before it’s stripped back altogether, Wolfgang Tillmans has been invited to deconstruct it another way. His show, Rien ne nous y préparait – Tout nous y préparait (Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us) covers all 6,000 sq metres of the space.It’s an inspired setting because ...

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5 d. ago Wild rodents, fascist warnings and a haunted carpet: Wolfgang Tillmans storms the Pompidou

Pompidou Centre, ParisAs the gallery prepares to close its doors for five years, Tillmans is let loose across all 6,000 sq metres of its public library. The results are stunning – and chillingIn September the Pompidou Centre in Paris closes for five years for renovation. The building is nearly 50 years old and needs to be cleared of asbestos, and to reconnect with Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’ original design after years of architectural accumulations. Many of the departments are already moving into temporary new homes, including the huge Bibliothèque publique d’information, the public library usually based on the second floor. Nearly all of its contents have been emptied out, but before it’s stripped back altogether, Wolfgang Tillmans has been invited to deconstruct it another way. His show, Rien ne nous y préparait – Tout nous y préparait (Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us) covers all 6,000 sq metres of the space.It’s an inspired setting because ...

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1 week ago Scientists warn massive underwater volcano is 'ready' to ERUPT... and will release millions of tons of lava

Scientists monitoring the swelling of a massive volcano off the West Coast warned, 'it is ready' to erupt after finding

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2 w. ago Huge Mount Etna eruption triggers aviation red alert as tourists flee to safety

The massive volcano mount Etna has erupted – footage of horrified tourists fleeing to safety has hit social media – the eruption triggered the Aviation Colour Code to be raised to Red at 03:32 UTC

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2 w. ago Doubts raised over Chinese paraglider’s claim of accidental 8,000

Peng Yujiang says updraft took him nearly as high as Mount Everest but parts of flight video appear to be AI-generatedA Chinese paraglider’s story of being accidentally propelled more than 8,000 metres high by an updraft has been thrown into doubt after it emerged that parts of a video of the flight appear to have been AI-generated.Peng Yujiang, who has been banned from the activity for six months, said he began from an elevation of about 3,000 metres in the Qilian mountain range in northern China, where he intended to test some secondhand equipment he bought without making a proper flight, according to an investigative report by the Gansu Provincial Aviation Sports Association. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fears huge volcano could erupt as earthquake spike leaves major city on edge

Seismic activity recorded at a massive volcano near a major city has sparked fears of an eruption – experts have cautioned the volcano is at an 'elevated state of unrest'

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2 w. ago Over a barrel: lack of sugar throws Cuba’s rum industry into crisis

This year’s tiny harvest casts doubt on the spirit’s recent resurgence, once a bright spot in the island’s economy It’s a crisis that would have sent a shiver down Ernest Hemingway’s drinking arm. Cuba’s communist government is struggling to process enough sugar to make the rum for his beloved mojitos and daiquiris.As summer rains bring the Caribbean island’s 2025 harvest to an end, a recent analysis by Reuters suggests that Cuba’s state-run monopoly, Azcuba, is likely to produce just 165,000 metric tonnes of sugar this year. That compares with harvests of 8m in the late 1980s. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Fears huge volcano is set to ERUPT amid spike in earthquakes... leaving major US city on edge

Officials have detected a surge in earthquake activity at a massive US volcano, sparking fears of an imminent eruption.

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3 w. ago Experts reveal what would happen if supervolcano 1,000 miles from London erupted

Experts reveal what would happen if supervolcano 1,000 miles from London erupted  Metro.co.uk

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3 w. ago Scraps of land across Dumfries and Galloway to be used to support nature and benefit local communities

Solas for Nature hopes to turn more than 300,000 square metres of local authority land into nature-rich environmental stepping stones.

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3 w. ago 'New Concorde' would cut UK to US flight time to 45 minutes going 7x speed of sound

The A-HyM Hypersonic Air Master is designed to carry 170 passengers and cruise at an altitude of 30,000 metres while travelling at speeds of Mach 7.3

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