Volcano Eruption in Guatemala Volcán de Fuego

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Volcán de Fuego
Volcán de Fuego, 1974 eruption. via Wikipedia.org
Elevation	3,763 m (12,346 ft)

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RSOE EDIS
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Volcano Eruption

Guatemala

Sierra Madre, [Volcan de Fuego]

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Volcano Eruption in Guatemala on Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 03:16 (03:16 AM) UTC.

Description The Volcan de Fuego (Fire Volcano( of Guatemala registered Wednesday its 8th eruption in this year, and keeps itself expelling gases and ashes to more than 4,800 meters of altitude over sea level. A communique by the National Seismology and Volcanology Institute gave information on the implementation of the yellow alert in the region and called the population to keep informed on the situation. Also, it recommended the authorities of the aeronautics to take precautions with the air traffic, since the ash column can increase in the next hours. The colossus with 1,300 meters high, as he warned the National Coordinating committee for the Reduction of Disasters, can increase the energy in the next hours and there is probability to generate ardent clouds that may descend on its skirts. For the time being it is not necessary to realize evacuations, said the entity.

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Volcano Eruption in Guatemala on Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 03:16 (03:16 AM) UTC.

Base data EDIS Number: VE-20151008-50410-GTM Event type: Volcano Eruption Date/Time: Thursday, 08 October, 2015 at 03:16 (03:16 AM) UTC Last update: --- Cause of event:   Damage level: Minor Geographic information Continent: Central-America Country: Guatemala County / State: Sierra Madre Area: Volcan de Fuego City:   Coordinate: N 19° 33.800, W 103° 36.500 Number of affected people / Humanities loss Foreign people: Affected is unknown.

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Mimosa Plants Have Long Term Memory, Can Learn, Biologists Say

Jan 16, 2014 by Sci-News.com

By using the same experimental framework normally applied to test learnt behavioral responses in animals, biologists from Australia and Italy have successfully demonstrated that Mimosa pudica – an exotic herb native to South America and Central America – can learn and remember just as well as it would be expected of animals.

Mimosa pudica at the Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany. Image credit: H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mimosa pudica is known as the Sensitive plant or a touch-me-not. Dr Monica Gagliano from the University of Western Australia and her colleagues designed their experiments as if Mimosa was indeed an animal.
They trained Mimosa‘s short- and long-term memories under both high and low-light environments by repeatedly dropping water on them using a custom-designed apparatus.
The scientists show how Mimosa plants stopped closing their leaves when they learnt that the repeated disturbance had no real damaging consequence.
The plants were able to acquire the learnt behavior in a matter of seconds and as in animals, learning was faster in less favorable environment.
Most remarkably, these plants were able to remember what had been learned for several weeks, even after environmental conditions had changed.


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