Summer Wyatt-Buchan assesses the possibility of a super-volcano eruption and analyses the catastrophic impacts it would have on humanity. Located in the Western US, Yellowstone National Park spreads through the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, stretching over 3500 square miles. It was founded in 1872 making it the world’s oldest national park; welcoming over…
Category: Environment
A short reflection on Kawah Ijen, Java – Lucy Hart
Kawah Ijen is an active composite volcano, located within the Pleistocene Ijen caldera, at the Easternmost part of Java island, Indonesia; the volcano complex is a group of small stratovolcanoes, constructed within the 20-km-wide caldera. This summer I was lucky enough to see Kawah Ijen for myself. Kitted with gas masks and walking boots, we ascended…
Climate Change and Energy Democratisation; UCL Why Not Play Gooseberry? Angelos Angelidis
Yet another article about climate change, a global environmental phenomenon which we have learnt to fear but have ironically become desensitised to. We are slowly becoming numb to news regarding melting glaciers, rising sea levels and environmental disasters. It is a bit like Donald Trump, whose excessive social media presence somehow made his absurd statements…
The Bloomsbury Geographer 