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Geoffrey Lean is Britain's longest-serving environmental correspondent

As if things were not bad enough already. The eruption of Ejyafjallajökull, it is feared, may continue for weeks, months or even longer, disrupting air traffic whenever the wind blows its ash into flight paths: last time it blew up, in 1821, it went on for more than a year. And it may well be followed by another volcano, Katla

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Carolyn Classen , April 17th, 2010 on 12:53 pm

Thanks Jonathan for this article. People on the Big Island of Hawaii are experiencing respiratory problems due to the continued eruptions of 2 vents at Kilauea at the HVNP. Many of the leafy vegetables & plants have had their leaves wilt & die– probably due to the vog, leading to crop damage. The vog has been reported as far away as Honolulu, on the Island of Oahu, which is over 200 miles away from the active volcano.