Risk of volcano catastrophe 'a roll of the dice'
According to specialists from the University of Birmingham and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, the world is "woefully underprepared" for a major volcanic eruption and its expected effects on global supply networks, the climate, and food. They claim that there is a "widespread misperception" that the likelihood of big eruptions is minimal and call the government's present lack of investment in monitoring and mitigating possible volcano disasters "reckless" in a paper that was published in the journal Nature. The researchers contend that protective measures against volcanic destruction can be adopted, including better surveillance, enhanced public awareness, and magma management, and the funding required to do so is long overdue. "According to information gleaned from ice cores on the frequency of eruptions over a long period of time, there is a one-in-six possibility that a magnitude seven explosi...