Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 And what to look for to better forecast when such a disaster might occur again. Getty Mount Nyiragongo, an active volcano on the eastern border of the ...
People try to make their way through solidified lava in the DR Congo city of Goma after last Saturday’s volcanic eruption – Copyright AFP Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS DR ...
People try to make their way through solidified lava in the DR Congo city of Goma after last Saturday’s volcanic eruption – Copyright AFP Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS ...
For decades, volcanologists have compared their craft to weather forecasting stuck in the 1950s: plenty of instruments, not nearly enough certainty. That gap is narrowing faster than most people ...
GOMA, Congo — Hacking away in the midday sun, 49-year-old farmer Daniel Lazuba remembers vividly his life before one of Africa’s most active volcanoes erupted 14 years ago. “All of this was corn ...
Around 8,000 people crossed into Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to seek refuge following the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano on Saturday, Rwanda's Emergency Management ...
At least 31 people have died and hundreds of children were feared missing or separated from their families Monday after Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...
Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...