NPR's David Baron reports that a massive flood of black water and house-sized icebergs burst out of a glacier in southeastern Iceland today, spilling across a 20-mile swath of coastline. The flood has destroyed a road, bridges, and utility lines, and it's disrupted fishing off the coast. Scientists had predicted the flood would occur, after a volcano erupted under Iceland's largest ice cap. But the torrent is bigger and is growing faster than anticipated.
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