Airlines cancel flights as volcanic cloud moves to Britain
May 24th, 2011 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 24 (IANS) Airlines have started cancelling dozens of flights as volcanic clouds from Iceland were moving towards Britain, a media report said Tuesday.The weather office has forecast that ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
London Heathrow, Gatwick airports to re-open - Air traffic service
May 17th, 2010 - 2:47 pm ICT by BNO News
LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- Heathrow and Gatwick airports will be clear on Monday of the UK no-fly zone due to a volcanic cloud from Iceland, officials said."The volcanic ash cloud continues to ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
UK no-fly zone extended, Heathrow and Gatwick airports to close
May 17th, 2010 - 5:35 am ICT by BNO News
LONDON (BNO NEWS) -- A no-fly zone in the UK due to a volcanic cloud from Iceland was extended on Sunday to include Heathrow and Gatwick airports, officials said."For 01:00 a.m. local ... Read more...
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20 Spain airports closed due to volcanic ash
May 9th, 2010 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, May 9 (IANS/EFE) Twenty Spanish airports in the northern part of the Iberian peninsula were closed Saturday due to the cloud of ash from the Icelandic volcano of Eyjafjalla, which covered ... Read more...
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Spanish tourism loses $337 mn due to volcano
April 22nd, 2010 - 7:11 am ICT by IANS
Madrid, April 22 (IANS/EFE) The Spanish tourism sector has lost $252 million euros ($337 million) in the crisis caused by the massive volcanic ash cloud emanating from Iceland, the Exceltur industry body ... Read more...
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Indonesian supervolcano’s eruption caused decade of fatal winters 74,000 years ago
July 4th, 2009 - 2:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 4 (ANI): Climate model simulations by a team of scientists has suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet ... Read more...
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