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Understanding stories from Maori traditions, which go back almost 800 years, will help mitigate the effects of future geologic and volcanic events.
If historical sources are to be believed, at least three islands in the Cook Islands have vanished into thin air. One of these, Tuanaki, is said to have submerged with all its occupants, as recently as 1842. By Rod Dixon.
Experts on Pacific history hit-out at a popular new series on Netflix, which they say is founded on ""racist ideologies"".
Volcanoes both created and destroyed life on Earth. Now, scientists are studying volcanic eruptions like Mauna Loa's on Hawaii to predict the future of our planet.
<p>The climate crisis is pushing some historians and folklorists to reconsider indigenous societies' origin stories of flooding and geographic cataclysm. Should science take this perspective into account? </p>