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Galapagos Island Volcano Erupts After 33 Years, Threatening Fragile Ecosystem

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-the-volcano-blows dept.

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.

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  1. Working links with pictures by bobstreo · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://phys.org/news/2015-05-p...

    https://volcanocafe.wordpress....

    http://www.volcanodiscovery.co...

    http://www.andes.info.ec/en/et...

    1. Re:Working links with pictures by pjt33 · · Score: 5, Informative

      FWIW, the Spanish-language version of the last link has much better pictures than the English-language version.

  2. Re:You realize... by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps I should have clarified that things going extinct is universally bad for humanity.

    Except that it's not. In the vast majority of cases it's neutral. In some cases it might be good. You have some kind of Greenpeace-like attitude that humanity == bad, every other species == good. That's not how the Universe works.