Press

Coverage of Kayla Iacovino's research and discoveries.

Only a Rumbling Volcano Could Make North Korea and the West Play Nice

By Nicholas St. Fleur — The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2016

North Korea lets scientists peer inside dangerous volcano

By Alexandra Witze — Nature, Apr. 15, 2016

Sacred Volcano in North Korea May Be Waiting to Blow

By Nadia Drake — National Geographic, Apr. 15, 2016

More Coverage

• ASU researcher navigates North Korea-China border to study active volcano — ASU News, 2017
• North Korea's millennium eruption flooded skies with sulfur, left little climate trace — Science, 2016
• Western scientists dissect a North Korea volcano cut off by diplomatic sanctions — PBS NewsHour, 2016
• Volcano research flows from North Korea — Physics Today (cover story), 2016
• How British Scientists Got Inside North Korea to Study a Volcano — WIRED, 2016
• New Partners Keep Watch Over North Korean Volcano — AAAS
• GeoMedia: A glimpse of geology in Star Trek Beyond — Earth Magazine, 2016
• Paektu-Ausbruch hatte doch Klimaauswirkungen — Deutschlandfunk (Germany)
• Sizing Up a Slumbering Giant — Science Magazine, 2013
• Will North Korea Erupt? — Slate, 2013
• On Conducting Science Atop a Volcano in North Korea — Smithsonian Magazine
• We mochten overal foto's maken — de Volkskrant, The Netherlands (newspaper scan), 2013

Television, radio, and podcast interviews.

• 1-hour interview with Ceska Televize Hyde Park Civilizace — Czech Republic National TV; English version (2018)
• Arizona National Guard assisting in Hawaii volcano emergency — ABC15 News Phoenix (2018)

• Climbing into Volcanoes in the African Rift Valley — Wild World with Scott Solomon, 2025
• A Beginner's Guide To Astonishing Volcanoes — Periodic Talks (with Gillian Jacobs), 2021
• TTE 02 Kayla Iacovino — The Thought Exchange podcast, 2020
• An interview with Kayla Iacovino — AGU StoryCorps Archive, 2020
• #108 Storytelling for science — Mini Geology Video Podcast
• AFO 2018: Volcanoes, Star Trek and stories from the ocean — Radio Wave – Cesky rozhlas, 2018
• The One at San Diego Comic Con — Mission Log Podcast, 2017
• North Korean Volcano Provides Rare Chance For Scientific Collaboration — NPR Morning Edition, 2016
• Seismology and Mt. Baekdu: Science Diplomacy in North Korea — Korea Economic Institute of America Podcast, 2015
• Kayla Iacovino: volcanoes and North Korea — Radio New Zealand, 2014
• N. Korea Enlists American Vulcanologist For Help With Active Volcano — NPR Weekend Edition Saturday, 2014
• World's Largest Volcano Discovered on Pacific Seafloor — NPR Science Friday, 2013
• Exploring Science at the End of the Earth — NPR Science Friday, 2011
• A Visit To Antarctica — NPR Science Friday, 2010