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The Conversation: People returned to live in Pompeii. Now, they return to La Palma’s latest lava flows.

GeoTenerife@geotenerife
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#1 · 24 March, 2026, 3:50 pm

People returned to live in Pompeii. Now, they return to La Palma’s latest lava flows. It’s easy to see why.

Ben Ireland, Volcanology PhD student and Lead Scientific Advisor, GeoTenerife

"People's attachment to ‘home’ and a lack of resources to uproot, will continue to drive populations to remain in areas prone to a wide variety of environmental hazards."

Read the opinion piece here:  https://geotenerife.com/why-do-people-return/

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