When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the harm can continue to spread long afterward.
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Debris flows can move with the speed of a freight train, picking up and demolishing anything in their path.
A series of surveys in the months and years after the devastating blaze near Boulder revealed continuing health concerns in surviving buildings, and tips for how to clean up smoke-damaged homes.
Pulverised fuel ash can be recycled and used to manufacture concrete as well as other products.
With trees infested by the emerald ash borer deemed essentially worthless, a team of designers wanted to see if the decaying wood could be repurposed as a building material.
Damage to water supply infrastructure and catchments during and after bushfires inhibits the treatment processes that normally make our water safe to drink.
Pyroclastic flows are biggest danger in these eruptions.
Fountains of lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano are dramatic, but the most deadly impacts of volcanic eruptions are toxic gases and ash and mud flows.
How do scientists predict volcanic eruptions? To do so with accuracy, they need to know the individual volcano and its history very well.
Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.
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Volcanologist, Lancaster University
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, Cornell University
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