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A regional airline has relieved a flight crew involved in a landing at the wrong airport earlier this month in Louisiana, leading one lawmaker to demand answers. Continental Connection Flight 3222, which originated from Houston, was bound for Lake Charles, La., with 23 passengers and three Colgan Air crew members …

A massive, long-ago extinction was once thought to have been caused by a destructive wave of volcanic activity. Scientists now point their fingers at another culprit. A giant, deadly “Earth burp.” Micha Ruhl and researchers from the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have …

A stunning new video of Iceland’s rumbling, smoking volcano Eyjafjallajokull shows rainbow-like shockwaves belching from the crater like snakes from a can of nuts. Nothing to fear, though, it’s merely the aftereffects of Plinian events. While rarely captured this well on film, they’re not uncommon, according to vulcanologist Jim Quick, …