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Bali volcano erupts three times on Saturday – Videos

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– Bali volcano erupts three times on Saturday – Videos:

Red alert issued as ash from Mount Agung rises 4,000 meters (about 2.5 miles) into the sky.

This is according to Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of information and data for Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency.

The red warning means an eruption is forecast to be imminent, with significant emission of ash likely.

Most reports say 25,000 have been evacuated, but one report estimates as many as 140,000 evacuees.

Authorities have begun distributing masks in some areas as ash falls.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42126284

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/26/asia/mount-agung-eruption-bali-indonesia/index.html

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Wave Of Eruptions Along Pacific ‘Ring Of Fire’ Leave 10,000s Displaced

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– Wave Of Eruptions Along Pacific ‘Ring Of Fire’ Leave 10,000s Displaced:

The Pacific “Ring of Fire” is living up to its name.

The 450 or so volcanoes that make up the ring outline have been unusually active this year, sparking evacuations on the Indonesian island of Bali and on the tiny island nation of Vanuatu. Parts of southwestern Japan, meanwhile, have been shaken by a series of earthquakes, unsettling the local population, in an area where the massive Pacific Plate grinds against other plates that form the Earth’s crust, creating a 25,000-mile zone where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are unusually common.

Three volcanos have either erupted, or are showing signs of an imminent eruption, across the region, according to a roundup published by the Associated Press.

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Mount Rubbish: Tourist Landfill Threatening Bali’s Paradise (Video)

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Aug 26, 2014

More than 10 million people visit Bali each year, almost three times its local population. It is a huge stress on its resources, but with tourism so important to its economy, how can the competing demands be met?

Many thousands of cubic metres of waste are dumped everyday in Bali. A new local site not to be found on the tourist trail is Mount Rubbish. Worse still, the toxic run-off from this mountain of waste filters into Bali’s source of drinking water. “We are being poisoned by this pile of rubbish”, says environmental activist Moko. But garbage is not the only problem; Bali’s development is based on foreign exploitation, which has made locals feel that their very way of life is under threat. Many Balinese now believe that keeping culture and traditions strong could be their last defence. “We Balinese should take the move to save Bali, before it’s too late”, a local campaigner explains.

Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army

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Al Gore at the UN climate change conference in Bali in 2007.
Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty images

· Huge drive for Congress action on global warming
· $300m TV campaign will focus on job opportunities

Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change – twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.

During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.

The wecansolveit.org initiative aims to build up pressure on the next US president to support stringent mandatory emissions controls when they come before Congress, and take a leadership role at the renegotiation of the Kyoto treaty.

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