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1. Nyiragongo has an intricate plumbing system, widespread as the roots of a tree.

2. Reaching the summit rim of Nyiragongo was straightforward: Sims and Tedesco followed the lava.

3. Reasons to worry: Nyiragongo, like Merapi, has the characteristic steep sidesof a stratovolcano.

4. Situated along the Great Rift Valley, Nyiragongo had a lava lake in its summit crater, which burst during the night in January 1977.

5. Nyiragongo is a two-mile-high volcano towering over the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)—one of the most active volcanoes on the planet and also one of the least studied.

6. Last July, Tedesco headed to Nyiragongo with U. S. volcanologist Ken Sims, a team of younger scientists, and a support crew, including six Kalashnikov-toting guards.

7. Nyiragongo is also near a major populationcenter, the city of Goma, which is home to a quarter-million people.

8. Many wild animals in the forests around Congo's Nyiragongo volcano are likely to be harmed by the torrent of lava, ash and sulfurous gas pouring from the crater, wildlife experts said on Saturday.

9. Nyiragongo erupted again in 2002, sending flows toward the city of Goma and the shores of Lake Kivu.

10. Cradling one of the world's largest and least studied lava lakes—more than 700 feet across and possibly miles deep—Nyiragongo has twice sent molten rock racing toward residents of Goma.

11. Nyiragongo is one of eight volcanoes on the borders of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, a region dense with tropical forests and famously home to rare mountain gorillas .

12. North of the city limits seethes Nyiragongo volcano, which last erupted in 2002, when its lava roared through town and wiped out Goma's commercial district.

13. Nyiragongo is in the Great Rift Valley, where the African continental plate is being wrenched apart, and microquakes constantly shake the volcano.

14. Italian seismologist Dario Tedesco has spent the last 15 years studying Nyiragongo, with funding from the European Union.

15. Magma churns and gushes in the lava lake of Mount Nyiragongo, one of Africa's most active volcanos, in Goma, Congo.

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16. The volcano is one of the most activein Africa -- Nyiragongo and its sister volcano Nyamuragira areresponsible for two-fifths of the African continent's volcano eruptions.

17. Both eruptions were mere grumbles, though, compared with the fury Nyiragongo is thought capable of unleashing.

18. The lava-rumpled city sprawls between Lake Kivu, full of dangerous gases, and the restless Nyiragongo volcano.

19. When an eruption in 1977 drained the crater of its lava lake, Nyiragongo flooded 20 square kilometers in an hour and killed around 70 people.

20. The Virunga Conservation Area is formed by 3 National Parks of 3 countries, Uganda, Rwanda and DPC. The active volcano on the right is Mt. Nyiragongo.