This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Vesuvius is part of the Campanian volcanic arc — a string of volcanoes in Italy, including the currently active Mount Etna, that sits on a boundary between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Italy, renowned for its culture, cuisine, and stunning landscapes, is also home to some of Europe's most active and potentially dangerous volcanoes. Situated on the boundary of two tectonic plates ...

Archaeologists in Italy found footprints of Pompeii inhabitants, revealing a dramatic flight from a bronze age Mount Vesuvius ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

The volcano sees persistent low-level explosions, called Strombolian, which tend to occur every 10 to 20 minutes and are seen ...

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.

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 ...

An unusual discovery was made in Pompeii (Italy), which had been buried under volcanic ash for nearly two thousand years, ...