Climate of destruction

Giles Catchpole hopes for cool heads in cold climes

The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population o

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The vast, open spaces of Canada’s British Columbia can make you feel very small, but very much alive, discovers Rosie Paterson

It sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or a disaster movie: a series of volcanic eruptions kicks off a deadly pandemic. But new research suggests that such an event may indeed have happened.

CAROL McGIFFIN