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Energy trouble in paradise: Why the Canary Islands lack power (while Iceland is well off)
The sun sets into the Atlantic Ocean. In the distance is the eternal sound of the waves, one after another dashing onto the beach. I sit on the hotel balcony […]
Volcano fear and lava loathing on the beautiful island: La Palma, the Canary Islands
La Palma. The northwesternmost of the Canary Islands: an island with little tourism, but spectacular nature and geology, and it is the site of the archipelago’s most recent volcanic eruption, […]
A lava worm or rock rose? – and why basalt columns have six sides
It looks like some kind of giant, grey underground worm with teeth radiating in its mouth. A sand worm from Dune, which happened to dig its tunnel out of a […]