Smoke rising from the Vesuvius volcano, east of Naples, in July 2017. Photo by Eliano IMPERATO / AFP A strong 4.4-magnitude quake hit Italy's volcanic region of Campi Flegrei and the nearby city of ...

Italy's Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli volcanoes erupted in recent days, spewing smoke and ash into the air. These volcanoes are two of the most active in the world — but they are not the only ...

So, why visit an active volcano? Well, for starters ... While most tourists travel to Italy during the sunnier seasons, this region gets particularly toasty in summer, so it's best to avoid ...

The volcano is "releasing unusual levels of volcanic ... The bad news is that Italy is ripe with volcanic activity. Likelihood: Scientists say the "year to year probability" of a major eruption ...

Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads ...

A team of volcanologists are investigating the dynamics of explosive eruptions at Stromboli volcano, Italy, with a particular focus on its last 5,000 years of activity. Present-day volcanic activity ...

The feather belonged to a vulture that lived in Italy some 30,000 years ago ... s microscopic axons and neurons in a solid state. Volcanoes spew hot gas, ash, and of course, lava when they ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

A volcano on Italy's Stromboli island has erupted, releasing a huge plume of smoke into the air and lava into the sea. Stromboli is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and has been ...

Cascades of lava flowed from one of Mount Etna’s largest craters for the first time in four years. It is Europe’s tallest active volcano. Photo: Etna Walk/Giuseppe di Stefano/Reuters ...

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.