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<div class="individual-author">Alexandra Witze is a science journalist in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author, with Jeff Kanipe, of <a href="https://profilebooks.com/work/island-on-fire/">Island on Fire</a>, a book about the 1783 eruption of the Icelandic volcano Laki.</div>
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Alexandra Witze

Geoscience

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