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Galapagos Island Volcano Erupts After 33 Years, Threatening Fragile Ecosystem
An anonymous reader writes: Wolf volcano in the Galapagos islands has erupted for the first time in more than 30 years, sending lava flowing down its slopes and potentially threatening the world's only colony of pink iguanas. The Galapagos National Park says that currently there is no risk to tourism operations, but the Environment Ministry is notifying tourist operators to take precautions. A tourist boat passing by took an amazing picture of the eruption.
Doesn't this place have editors?
Leave it facebook to then block the photo.
Seriously, why does it even have to be explained that it is not a good idea to link to facebook. ?
It's a freakin' volcano erupting and all we get is a Reuters article without any photo and a link to lame-ass Facebook which doesn't even work?
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It's the people who are threatening the fragile ecosystem.
FB image link appears to be down, or just not accessible for people not on FB.
This one was only 100x as big as a Snickers bar.
would be PART of the ecosystem, no?
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Good to know that the exceedingly wealthy will not be suffering from slight inconvenience. And to think I was worried about the possible loss of irreplaceable ecological assets...
http://phys.org/news/2015-05-p...
https://volcanocafe.wordpress....
http://www.volcanodiscovery.co...
http://www.andes.info.ec/en/et...
Clearly this is a manmade disaster caused by White American Republican Males. They should stop volcanoing!
Found the problem, you have to be logged in to Facebook to see it.
And why on earth would I want to do that? Facebook has nothing of value to offer me that I care about and I sure as hell do not trust the company. I do not have a Facebook account and don't expect to get one any time soon. I'm certainly not going to sign up to get some random news article that undoubtedly will be available elsewhere.
After enough volcano eruptions perhaps a new breed of lava-proof super iguana will evolve?
Wired has it.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
...if humans save these pink iguanas, we are interfering with nature. Can't have it both ways, by saying our actions that make stuff go extinct is bad, and actions by nature that makes stuff go extinct is bad, too.
Your link is to a "File" NOT a site. I don't have access to your computer.
How did the boat take a picture?
Oh no, man is not the villain this time! The liberals must be very upset!!
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"Environmentalists voice concern over iguanas"
Cool, environmentalists voice concern over the environment making a species extinct.
We should put a stop to the environment!
Volcano erupts in Galapagos and lava flows down the hill to cover a nature preserve potentially wiping out ping iguanas..... God denounced for being anti-nature because he has replaced a preserve with a parking lot....
Utter reality that nature deletes species all on its own without any help from the human infection, lol.
I suppose a story about a secret fracking operation will surface any day now...
There is this thing called Google that was invented back in the 1990s before the Bush administration came around and made it uncool to know things.. and I just used it to find this:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/galapagos-island-volcano-erupts-threatening-fragile-ecosystem/story?id=31300581
Seriously you guys claim to be nerds and geeks and technology experts and yet waste all that time because you can't get to a picture on Facebook that is available all over the internet???
Except that--to the extent that some organisms depend on the volcano for survival (eh, maybe some extremophile bacteria?)--no it is not a part of the ecosystem any more than a large asteroid on a collision course with Earth is part of the ecosystem.
On a related note, there is a difference between caring about the preservation of endangered species and pimping 'organic' food. Only the later involves mindlessly screaming "but it's natural!"
You are incredibly self-absorbed if you think anyone other than the slash-shit echo chamber cares the slightest whether you would ever sign in to FB.
Apparently you care since you got all worked up about it here in the "slash-shit echo chamber". Little bit of irony there that seems to have escaped your notice. You also apparently are unable to comprehend that my point was in regards to the annoying assumption that everyone has a facebook account. I use myself as an example but I'm hardly the only one. I would make the exact same point about a NYT paywall link although to be honest I trust the NYT far more than I ever would trust facebook.
Man, I rail against NYT paywalls which people erroneously claim can by bypassed by private browsing, and I get accused of trolling. One failbook link, and everyone LOSES THEIR MINDS
Same basic issue but frankly I trust the NTY *far* more than I trust facebook even though I have no interest in funding either one. There should NEVER be a paywall link in an article summary. Ever. Facebook is merely a particularly egregious one since they are so full of douchebaggery.
Unless those pink iguanas evolved within the last 30 years, that active volcano is PART OF their 'fragile ecosystem'. It's been there all along.
It's not really a volcano. It's global warming making the earth hotter and melting the rocks. Nature couldn't possibly be destroying her own environment, could she?
How does anyone know that saving pink iguanas from a volcano is better than letting nature take its course?
Oh well, evolution says they lose. Who are we to object.