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Article: VOLCANIC FALLOUT THREATENING ARGENTINE ECOSYSTEM.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1991
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Byline: Nathaniel C. Nash New York Times
Clouds of fine ash sent aloft in the eruption of a Chilean volcano two months ago have settled on a vast, sparsely populated area of southern Argentina, choking off grasses, starving to death hundreds of thousands of sheep and threatening to turn much of Patagonia - a delicate ecosystem of arid steppe - into a desert wasteland.
While no human lives are known to have been lost in the eruption of the Hudson Volcano in the Chilean Andes on Aug. 12, scientists and government officials are just now beginning to realize the extent of its potentially permanent ecological damage across an area five times the size of ...