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The American Red Cross said Monday that its disaster fund has been nearly depleted, after it spent three times more in aid to victims in the past year than it received
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This volcano in Indonesia looks like it seeping with blue lava. So what going on here It not Photoshop. The images are, amazingly, real. Joseph Stromberg over at Smithsonian talked to the photographer, Olivier Grunewald who is working on a documentary about the area along with R茅gis Etienne, to get the explanation of just what happening at the Kawah Ijen volcano. Although the images of the blue eruption are quite real, it not the lava itself that is responsible for the color, it the sulfuric gas that also being emitted: This blue glow, unusual for a volcano, isn ;t the lava itself, as unfortunately can be read on many websites, Grunewald says. It is due to the combustion of sulfuric gases in contact with air at temperatures above 360掳C. In other words, the lava鈥攎olten rock that emerges from the Earth at ultra-high temperatures鈥攊sn ;t colored significantly differently than the lava at other volcanoes, whi
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