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“How strangely Fogo burns, amidst an ocean full of flying fishes” & The Friday Night Riddles!

We apologize for coming out a bit late with this article on Fogo, but as you all know, Real Life does not care for our hobbies. Yet, it is still in good time as the news from Fogo are not getting less, in the opposite, more and increasingly sad news can be read throughout the…

The volcano that was not and Weekend NtV Riddle

The last few days Baekdu volcano and the Baekdudaegan mountain range crept up as a topic in the comment field. It is nothing unusual with that, after all Baekdu has had one of the largest eruptions in the last one thousand years. Some commenter’s also noted that it was inordinately hard to find any information…

The Decade Volcano Programme

The volcanic eruptions of Mount St Helens in 1980 and Nevado del Ruiz in 1985 made the general public aware of the dangers of co-existing with a large and potentially lethal volcano. It doesn’t take much imagination to see the possibilities of a lateral St Helens-type blast on a population of a great city as…