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• Mount Sinabung volcano eruption – in pictures

  14 Oct 2014: Mount Sinabung, which had lain dormant for over 400 years, has been intermittently erupting since September last year

• Pollutionwatch: Fine weather – with added particulates and SO2

  12 Oct 2014: Gary Fuller on a month of settled weather, allowing a buildup of nitrate particles and volcanic sulphur dioxide

• Lava flow from Hawaiian volcano prompts warning to residents

  9 Oct 2014: Ooze of molten rock burns through forest near homes, sending foul gases into the air and threatening to cut off major road

• Eyewitness: Mount Ontake, Japan

  Picture, 7 Oct 2014:

  Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

• Watch Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano exploding – video

  Video (1min 07sec), 5 Oct 2014:

  Spectacular footage shows explosions at Bardarbunga volcanic system in Iceland

• Hikers killed by Japanese volcano left poignant pictures of final moments

  5 Oct 2014: Rescuers are still searching for some bodies from the 27 September Mount Ontake eruption on a popular trail, but they have found photographic legacy

• Violence of volcanoes is helping scientists monitor Earth’s sensitive side

  4 Oct 2014: Tiny changes in the planet’s rotation, climate change and ice melt could all be contributing factors to surges of volcanic activity

• Photo highlights of the day

  3 Oct 2014: The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world

• Terrawatch: Mount Ontake eruption

  1 Oct 2014: Kate Ravilious on why the eruption of the Japanese volcano may have been almost impossible to predict

• Mount Ontake rescue teams find seven more bodies after volcano eruption in Japan – video

  Video (1min 05sec), 1 Oct 2014:

  Seven more bodies have been found by rescuers combing the peak of a Japanese volcano that erupted at the weekend, raising the death toll to 43

• Japanese volcano death toll rises, with many more still missing

  1 Oct 2014: Seven more bodies recovered from Mount Ontake on Wednesday morning, but reports vary on how many people are still unaccounted for

• Japanese volcano may erupt again, experts fear

  30 Sep 2014: Rescuers suspend plans to recover bodies from near summit as seismic activity increases at Mount Ontake

• Search for Japanese volcano victims suspended for fear of more eruptions

  30 Sep 2014: Increasingly strong tremors delay search for at least 24 bodies still to be recovered from the peak of Mount Ontake

• Life in the volcanic danger zone: how well can scientists predict eruptions?

  29 Sep 2014: The casualties on Japan’s Mount Ontake are among 80,000 fatalities from volcanic eruptions over the past 100 years. What are the challenges involved in predicting the next explosion, asks Bill McGuire

• Escape from Mount Ontake – in pictures

  29 Sep 2014: The Japanese volcano erupted on Saturday, killing dozens and leaving more than 250 people stranded near the peak. Some were able to flee and recorded their escape

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