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Smoke on the glacier, fire in the sky

Iceland’s latest volcanic eruption is getting glowing reviews.
The typically quiet hiking grounds between two Icelandic glaciers began throwing a bit of a hissy-fit around midnight on 20 March 2010. One that involves lava.
The late night eruption was originally thought to be centred beneath something called “Eyjafjallajökull,” a glacier harder to spell than to climb.
The idea […]