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Heavy Rainfall May Have Sparked Kilauea’s Explosive 2018 Eruption Climate Change

Heavy Rainfall May Have Sparked Kilauea’s Explosive 2018 Eruption

Lava pouring out from Kilauea’s Fissure 8 on June 25, 2018.Image: USGSScientists are attributing the 2018 Kilauea eruption, which destroyed hundreds of homes on Hawaii’s Big Island, to a surprising source: intense and sustained rainfall.Excessive precipitation in the months leading up to the eruption led to the collapse of rocky…
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April 22, 2020
Dramatic mega-projects meant to combat the coronavirus are proving a waste of time. The real solution is boring competence. Mexico Border Wall

Dramatic mega-projects meant to combat the coronavirus are proving a waste of time. The real solution is boring competence.

President Donald Trump at the launch of the USNS Comfort, deployed to New York City on March 28, 2020. It was ordered home less than a month later, having treated fewer than 200 people. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Nobody is quite sure how best to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, but…
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April 22, 2020