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Puyehue volcano in Chile erupted on Saturday 4th June 2011 after 51 years of inactivity. More than 600 people were evacuated from the area.

Hurricane Adrian is moving toward the west-northwest near 9 mph (15 km/h) and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 48 hours.

Fires in Scotland and Northern Ireland continued to burn in this image taken one day after Eosnap first observed the blazes (click here for previous article).
The main fire in the Scottish Highlands continued to blow smoke across the Minch towards the Isle of Lewis, although here the smoke is blowing west-southwest.

Several interesting phenomena can be observed in and near the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
First, multiple fires can be seen releasing smoke towards the northwest in the upper part of the full image.

Lake Eyre is the terminal point of the great continental drainage system which spreads over 1.14 x 106 km2 of arid central Australia. The lake, whose lowest parts lie 15.2 m below sea level, consists of two sections: Lake Eyre North and Lake Eyre South, joined by the narrow Goyder Channel.

Wildfires sweeping across hundreds of thousands of acres in parched Texas killed a firefighter, forced hundreds of evacuations , including an entire town , and destroyed dozens of homes on April 14th, officials said.
Here, several plumes of smoke can be seen blowing towards the south and southeast in southern Texas, near the Mexico border.

Italy's Mount Etna has come back to life with a brief eruption that sent lava down its slopes and a cloud of ash into the sky, forcing the overnight closure of a nearby airport.

A green and blue phytoplankton bloom can be observed parallel to the coast of Argentina. In the full image, the full extent of the bloom, from the Province of Buenos Aires in the North to below the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas in the South, is visible.