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In 2010, ash clouds coming from Iceland managed to make themselves responsible for flight bans on the European Continent, for the second time. Despite the fact that experts established that this event's impact was relatively small for volcanic eruptions, it caused chaos and influenced the profit margins of airli... |
31 October 2011
08:02 GMT |
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The Laki eruption of 1783, while unknown to many, was a massive volcanic eruption in southern Iceland that led to the production of massive acid rain clouds throughout Europe. Scientists now warn that this could happen again, were a similar eruption to occur at this point.
Over the past couple of years, two major ... |
20 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Experts say that it may be possible to use satellite monitoring data to get relatively accurate predictions as to how ash plumes emitted by volcanoes might spread in the surrounding regions. This is essential for flying airplanes safely, but also for preventing air catastrophes. This discussion was again brought into... |
26 May 2011
10:35 GMT |
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The Icelandic parliament is considering revoking the operating licenses of Visa and Mastercard after the two credit card companies banned donations to WikiLeaks.The parliamentary general committee met last Friday to discus whether Visa and Mastercard has the legal right to impose such a restriction on consumers and p... |
14 December 2010
08:44 GMT |
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Planetary scientists believe they may have discovered a way of keeping track of volcanic ash even at night, when the clouds are notoriously difficult to observe. They say that keeping an eye on the lightnings accompanying the clouds provides sufficient data to determine the height and path of clouds.This conclusion w... |
13 December 2010
03:12 GMT |
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Iceland has now unanimously approved a proposal to revamp the country’s media laws to make it a “new media haven.” The proposal was spearheaded and strongly backed by whistleblower site Wikileaks. The Icelanding Parliament has now approved the proposal. It’s not going to change anything for th... |
18 June 2010
11:07 GMT |
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The glaciovolcano Eyjafjallajokull erupted on March 20 for the first time in two centuries, covering the skies above Iceland, and indeed most of Europe, with a thick cloud of ash. This prevented airplanes from taking off, and cased significant damage to the European economy. As such, it stands to reason that people a... |
11 May 2010
04:15 GMT |
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The recent volcanic eruption at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, which caused major air travel disruptions across Europe due to the resulting ash cloud, is being exploited by cybercriminals to infect users. Searching for information or images related to the event poses an increased risk of leading to malicious pages... |
17 April 2010
06:57 GMT |
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In the middle of the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean lies the small island nation of Iceland. It is located at a very peculiar place, right on top of the Atlantic Ridge, which is sort of like a seam going southwards through the mid-Atlantic. What makes this ridge extremely special is that it produces new oceanic... |
23 March 2010
03:04 GMT |
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Wikileaks is just a couple of years old, but it has amassed quite a bit of notoriety in that time. The whistle-blower site has exposed some pretty big cases and angered a lot of people, companies and government in the process. Still, it has managed to fight off any legal threat so far, of which there were many, and ... |
15 February 2010
04:54 GMT |
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The Scandinavian nation of Norway incited international outrage recently, when it announced that it would increase its maximum whale-hunting quota by more than 45 percent, as opposed to the 2009 level. The move was sparked by nothing more than political interests that this country and Japan had in preserving the usel... |
9 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Iceland's proposed law of increasing its yearly quota of whales culled has sparked both environmental and diplomatic protests, as evidenced by the fact that, on Monday, diplomats from the United States and five other countries urged the newly-appointed government of the island nation to drop its intention, even ... |
17 February 2009
04:24 GMT |
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The new government that has taken control of the country only this week seems a bit more reasonable than its predecessors, activists say, after it has announced that it will carefully revise the whaling policy extension passed on by the other rulers last week. Under the regulation, Iceland was to continue hunting the... |
4 February 2009
03:19 GMT |
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The North-Atlantic nation recently announced that it would again expand its self-assigned yearly quota of fin whales to approximately 150 over the next five years, even tough authorities in the country are perfectly aware of the fact that the culling of whales is expressly prohibited in international treaties. The mo... |
30 January 2009
07:09 GMT |
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We live in some very troubled times, and with the economy suffering from a grave recession we're bound to see some companies go out of business. Even though quite a lot of people, either analysts or representatives from companies like Blizzard or Microsoft, have said that the gaming industry is virtually recessi... |
29 December 2008
03:04 GMT |
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A new study conducted at DeCODE Genetics in Iceland and at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia reveals that skin pigmentation and hair color may not have such an important role in getting skin cancer after sitting in the Sun, not as much as a newly found gene that could be used to predict which pe... |
19 May 2008
10:07 GMT |
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Ericsson signed a mobile TV contract with Siminn, the largest mobile operator in Iceland, and will provide mobile TV solutions to the Reykjavik-based company in order to make mobile content and services more accessible to users.Siminn's customers will have access to one of the fastest channel selectors available... |
18 June 2007
09:23 GMT |
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The giant portal Yahoo is now planning to build a new server in Iceland that will help the company expand its services in the area. Although the decision was not officially confirmed, Yahoo wants to open a new office and start the operation in about three years. According to Iceland Review, Yahoo encounters a single ... |
11 May 2007
10:28 GMT |
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