U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

U.N. Warns Food Shortage Will Continue Up To 2010 AHN London, England - United Nations World Food Program (WFP) head Josette Sheeran warns that the agency is already taking precautionary measures by rationing food aid to address worldwide food shortage and the increasing commodity prices which is ex...

Republican Bobby Jindal's bizarre callout of "volcano monitoring" as one of those things government shouldn't be bothering with, in his rebuttal to President Obama, has already been amply mocked. I'm most struck by his wording, which was not just dissing volcano monitoring, but more exactly, quote: ...

Oh, this is just too rich. This is one of those things, you can't make-up. Off-screen voice: Governor, you just had the biggest meltdown of your career, on national television, so what are you going to do? Bobby Jindal: I'm going to DisneyWorld! Holy Cow! Jindal's office says the governor and his fa...

At The Volcanism Blog (you knew there had to be one!), they’re not too happy about Governor Bobby Jindal’s “volcano monitoring” slam: Something called ‘volcano monitoring’. The Volcanism Blog does not do politics, any more than it does sport, religion or cookery. ...

This is Mt. Redoubt, a volcano located in the Chigmit Mountains west of Cook Inlet, about 110 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The volcano erupted in 1989-1990 for five months, sending a plume of ash, steam and debris high into the atmosphere. A Dutch 747 airplane with 300 people aboard was for...

An unsigned reader writes "Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of Alaska. The once quiet volcano has begun to roar once again. It's last eruption was in 1989 and geologists suggest that the next one is upon us. Alaskans who lived throu...

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holy fucking shit, awesome shots of the volcanoes...

Filed under: News Things in south-central Alaska just got a bit more interesting (and south-central Alaska was already a pretty tough neighborhood). Mount Redoubt has seen a dramatic uptick in seismic activity over the last several days and seismologists fear that an eruption may be imminent. Locate...