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Plant life growing in lava rock on slopes of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. 70 years after the last major eruption in 1944, nature reclaims the landscape with fragile yet resilient plant life. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."

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Plant life growing in lava rock on slopes of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. 70 years after the last major eruption in 1944, nature reclaims the landscape with fragile yet resilient plant life. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014). "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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