A volcano in Southern Italy has burned red as lava spewed from one of its craters. The snowy surroundings of Sicily’s Mount Etna were lit up as the volcano emitted lava around 3,000 metres above sea ...

Even though it happened nearly two millennia ago, this Italian volcano near Naples remains most famous for encasing the ...

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Lava meets snow in a stunning night-time eruption from Mount Etna's Bocca Nuova crater:: 10, 2025:: Mount Etna, ItalyThe National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Catania located the ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.

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Controversial Dutch researcher and seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets said on Monday that Greece is in volcanic and earthquake ...

A 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook Italy's Campi Flegrei, a flat volcanic area west of Naples, on Wednesday morning, resulting ...