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"The article offers information about Iceland. Aside from Iceland, the country has smoking volcanoes and steaming hot springs. Heimaey, an island off Iceland's southern coast, experienced eruption of red-hot lava from a crack in the ground in 1973 but people were able to prevent it. Blue Lagoon features milky blue waters and beneath it is a bed of hot rock. It is noted that one-tenth of Iceland is covered with glaciers."

"The article discusses how animals use color to survive. It discusses how a peacock spider, which can be found in eastern Australia, use color to show off or to get attention. It explains how a chameleon in Madagascar protects its territory by showing different colors. It cites that macaws in South America blend in their environment by using their colorful feathers as camouflage. It mentions that the dumpling squids off the coast of Australia hide from predators by using colors."

"The article narrates how skydiver Felix Bumgartner tested how far and how fast a person can fall and still survive. It reveals that he floated 39 kilometers above the Earth, in a region called stratosphere where there is less air pressure, riding a giant balloon for two hours. It also mentions that his team of scientists had questions only his jump could answer, such as how a human body would react to such a big fall from such a high place, and how the technology to protect him worked."