Communities prepare for ashfall
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Outside the Highway Junction Thrift Store, a thin film of gritty ash coated the bottom of a Mount St. Helens coffee mug. Price for the mug: $5.
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The nearly abandoned mining town of Playas, N.M., is about to teem with activity as an anti-terrorist training center begins operations in a matter of weeks.
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On Sept. 1st, a flurry of bright and oddly-colored meteors could spill across the skies of western North America--or not.  Forecasters are divided about what will happen next month when Earth runs into an ancient stream of debris from Comet Kiess.
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Communities on Australia's north west coast prepared for a severe tropical cyclone expected to hit the region early on Friday, with mines and oil production shut down and emergency services placed on alert.
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Weeks or months of occasional steam blasts and possibly some eruptions of fresh volcanic rock and ash are the most likely scenario at Mount St.
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MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. Oct. 6, 2004 - Weeks or months of occasional steam blasts and possibly some eruptions of fresh volcanic rock and ash are the most likely scenario at Mount St.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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CASTLE LAKE VIEWPOINT, near Mount St. Helens - With three explosions of steam and ash in less than a week, Mount St. Helens appears to have entered a restless new stage that could last weeks, months or possibly years, scientists said yesterday.
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Firefighters say they are prepared for the worst in their battle against bushfires burning out of control across the Australian state of Victoria.
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Church congregations in north-east India are preparing to hold special services after blasts and gun attacks killed at least 56 people on Saturday.
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a &quot;supervolcano&quot; that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash fallout 760,000 years ago.
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In towns like Russell, Pa., the future of the ash tree is in doubt because of a beetle and a warming climate.
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HELOTES, Tex. -- The smoke comes and goes with the breeze, but some days it blankets Deanna Rodriguez's neighborhood, covering cars in grimy ash and seeping inside homes. Some days, when the wind blows from the south, her house becomes almost uninhabitable.
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The people who remember the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 are not as fearful as they were then, with scientists predicting a less powerful eruption.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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With homes still swaddled in blue tarp and the deaths from Hurricane Charley still fresh in their minds, Florida residents lined up before dawn Thursday for supplies or made evacuation plans as they braced for what could be the mightiest storm of the season.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina began the New  Year on a grim note as families identified and prepared for  burial 174 victims of a fire in a Buenos Aires rock club,  including children and babies who might have died in a  makeshift nursery in the bathroom.