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. 2022 Feb 11;130(2):022001. doi: 10.1289/EHP10541

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Left: Aerial view of houses and small buildings with tongue of black lava sweeping across the land. Right: Black and red lava and the remains of a corrugated metal roof after a volcanic eruption. — Lava from the May 2021 eruption of Mount Nyiragongo cut through Buhene north of Goma (left) and wrought destruction in a residential district (right). “I saw the red lava pouring down the mountain,” says Goma resident Jean Rwangano. “We saw everything getting destroyed in front of us—our house, the land we used to cultivate.” Images, left to right: © Justin Kabumba/AP; © Guerchom Ndebo, AFP/Getty Images.