Ash from Iceland volcano to be used to test aircraft warning s...

We all remember eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland and the problems that brought to the airlines, the eruption in Cleveland, Alaska has again brought to light that people have not checked their travel insurance policy wordings carefully. A ...

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Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Leo Varadkar will today launch formal discussions at EU level to strengthen the rights of airline passengers, at a meeting of the European Transport Council in Luxembourg. The new measures, if accepted by EU ...

LONDON In ancient times, the drama of thunder and lightning so clearly went beyond human scale that the phenomenon was handed wholesale to the gods. The Greeks had Zeus, the Romans Jupiter. At the head of the Hindu pantheon was Indra, while Norse ...

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A Swiss-led network of monitoring stations will track volcanic ash to avoid future groundings of European airlines. It's a tricky and slow undertaking since the main task will be to co-ordinate the work of no fewer than 17 national weather services.

When Theo Chesley got a close look at one of two volcanoes erupting in Alaska he felt awed and a little afraid. It looked to me like that mountain was broke right open, said the pilot who flies regular routes along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian ...

New Delhi-born, Toronto-based author Jaspreet Singh's eagerly awaited second novel, Helium, is rather unusual, disturbingly beautiful and somewhat angry. In some senses, it bears many of the hallmarks of Singh's much-lauded 2009 Commonwealth Prize ...

The monitoring of volcanoes in Iceland is to be improved to give earlier warning of possible eruptions. Funded by the European Union, the project involves more sensors as well as better real-time data analysis. It is a response to the eruption of ...