ARMERO, Colombia — Touring the ruins of this once-bustling farm town, veterinarian Fernando Angarita points to the overgrown ...

Approximately 25,000 perished when the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, making it the deadliest natural disaster in Colombia’s recent history and leaving the town in central-western Colombia ...

The massive landslide wiped out the town of Armero, killing about 25,000 people – nearly 70% of its population – in what is ...

The November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano and the resulting Armero disaster marked a turning point in natural hazard and risk research, assessment and mitigation. Here, we ...

ARMERO, Colombia — Martha Lucía López released the boat into the river alongside hundreds of others with the faces of missing children, in one last attempt to find her son, or rather, to pray that he ...