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The beautiful island country of Sri Lanka has the youngest retirement age in the world where everyone can retire after just 55 years. Unlike European countries, where the population is ageing fast, Sri Lanka remains heavily skewed towards the young. While the UK’s mean age is 40 years old, Sri Lanka’s average is just 32. … Read more
The Earth is home to around 1,350 active volcanoes, from Iceland to Japan, New Zealand to the US. Each regularly shows signs of activity, though some blow their lids more often than others — and more violently. This is true of Mount Rinjani, the second-highest volcano in Indonesia and the highest point in the Indonesian … Read more
There are around 1,350 potentially active volcanoes around the world, many of which have only recently left dormancy after hundreds of years. Mount Sinabung is once such a volcano, a huge protrusion around 25 miles from the Lake Toba supervolcano in Indonesia. Before 2010, Sinabung’s last known eruption occurred 1,200 years ago, between 740 and … Read more
