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Each place has its own, and fortunately, in etna's case, the lava moves very slowly. etna has killed no more than 77 people in the last 2,700 years. so here's the thing. intense local monitoring and strong regulation can protect people but by visiting, you put your trust in others and individual tour operators. what you can do is research what's happening at your volcano to help you understand the risks.

The recent catastrophic eruption on new zealand's white island which killed 20 and injured a further 27 has highlighted the risk of visiting active volcanoes. but in coming here, i have been told by many people that this volcano is perfectly safe. etna certainly has one of the most sophisticated monitoring surveillance systems on earth. you have instruments that record any sort of ground vibration, then we measure gas emission and then magnetism and gravity and infra—sound, which are acoustic signals at very low frequencies that we cannot hear, and then obviously there is a great need for mo...

The great barrier reef. this is just part of the solution. we have to restore coral populations, but we also have to manage climate change. australia's great barrier reef. since this was filmed, actually, professor harrison's work has spread farther north to the whitsunday islands, which is great for him. so let's wish him good luck with that. coming up next this week, we're returning to europe and to one of nature's most powerful and frightening forces — volcanoes. this year's been a busy one for the people whose job it is to monitor mount etna. the sicilian volcano has been erupting regula...

Ho detto che sarebbe tornato. in one of the most volcanic regions in europe, an earthquake is detected. it could indicate devastating activity on the continent's largest volcano. but still, on etna, tourists gather unaware. right now we are 9,000 feet above the sea level, the highest you can get when you come to mount etna. what we are looking at is the south—east crater, the baby. it's the newest, 1971, but it's also considered the most dangerous of all because in this moment, it's becoming — how to say? — hyperactive. the recent catastrophic eruption on new zealand's white island which...

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