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Burned and barren: How wildfires transform volcanic soils
Wildfires in Peru’s Andes are depleting soil health and slowing ecosystem recovery, highlighting urgent conservation ...
Eruption watch at Alaska's Mt. Spurr volcano continues, earthquake swarms reported
Mount Spurr is not the kind of lava-spewing volcano familiar from Hawaii, but instead has historically ejected huge plumes of ...
Wildfires in the Andes cause severe soil degradation that hinders ecosystem recovery, study shows
In September 2018, a wildfire burned nearly two thousand hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano, an ecologically ...
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The Incas May Have Deliberately Built Machu Picchu Along Fault Lines. Here’s Why.
Rualdo MenegatThe reasoning for choosing this extreme location was three-fold (protection against earthquakes, a water supply, and readily available building materials), but all resulted from one ...