This book talk is part of The Telegraph Oxford Literary Festival 2025, the Oxford Martin School is the Festival Ideas Partner

Volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather talks about her travels to volcanoes across the globe and explains what these geological giants can teach us about our environment and climate change. Mather has travelled across deserts, through jungles and on ice caps to examine some of the world’s most important volcanoes. She explains how they have always helped to maintain the Earth’s life systems and how they may even have helped to provide the chemical ingredients to kickstart life on Earth.

Do volcanoes exist on other planets and what could that tell us about whether we could live there if we exhaust our own planet? Mather is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Rethinking Natural Resources. She is often seen and heard on television and radio science shows including the Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4.

This is a ticketed event and the tickets are £8 - £20. For more information and to purchase a ticket please visit this website: https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2025/march-29/adventures-in-volcanoland