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It was hard enough to pronounce the name of Iceland’s volcano. Eyjafjallajokull grounded trans-Atlantic flights earlier this year with its ash and smoke. Now another multi-syllabic volcano is sending plumes into the sky. Smoke and ash clouds from the Klyuchevskoy volcano are drifting 700 miles out over the Pacific. So its easy to spot�
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