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VIDEO: Scientists working to develop ash detection technology for aircraft

Environment

If all goes as planned, the massive closure of European air space that happened when a volcano on Iceland erupted for days in 2010 won’t have to happen again, if research on an ash detection system leads to new technology to route planes around trouble spots.

Video: Scientists Developing New Tech to Fly Through Ash Clouds

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Under the Ash in Iceland

Health & Medicine
The World

Inside Iceland’s Ash Cloud

Development & Education
The World

Ash cloud’s economic fallout reverberates throughout globe

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The World

British government uses war ships to ferry stranded passengers

Global Politics

Travelers caught up in the air transport chaos in Europe caused by a cloud of volcanic ash from an Icelandic volcano are going to extraordinary measures to get home. British travelers trying to get to the U.K. will soon get help from two major war ships.

The World

Volcanic ash cloud causes historic airport shutdown in Europe

Environment

A massive cloud of ashes has kept thousands of flights on the ground in Northern Europe yesterday after a volcano in Iceland erupted a second time this month, spewing huge amounts of silicate ash into a busy airspace for travelers in the region.

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Volcano erupts in Iceland, sends ash cloud through Europe

Environment

A five-mile high plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland is drifting across Northern Europe, causing massive disruption at airports in the U.K. and Scandinavia.

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Eurasian peninsula

Environment

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. So its easy to spot�