Mount Vesuvius, one of the world’s most famous volcanoes, stands tall near the Bay of Naples in southern Italy. Known for its ...

Archaeologists explain the ongoing excavations at Pompeii and new findings about Vesuvius’ eruption date ... It was utterly destroyed in a volcanic eruption.” “Most people think (the ...

POZZUOLI, Italy — In the red zone of the awakening Phlegraean Fields, the most dangerous volcano in Europe ... to wreak more havoc than Mount Vesuvius, about 25 miles away, during its historic ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

The latest eruption, the sixth since December, is part of increased volcanic activity that began in 2021. By Sarah Hurtes and Claire Moses A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday ...

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.

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79, it buried various cities at the Gulf of Naples under massive volcanic material—including Herculaneum, located near Pompeii. In the 18th century, an ...

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.

A volcano erupted Thursday in southwestern Iceland, the sixth eruption since late last year, Icelandic officials said, as a nearby town—which has largely remained empty since earlier eruptions ...

June 13, 2024 — Video footage of Iceland's 2010 Eyjafjallaj kull eruption is providing researchers with rare, up-close observations of volcanic ash clouds -- ... Earth Scientists Describe a New ...

A healthy dose of purposeful bathroom humor sets the stage for exploration in engineer and illustrator Jorge Cham’s new graphic novel Volcanoes Are Hot: Oliver’s Great Big Universe #2.

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Lava continued to spew from a volcano in southwestern Iceland on Friday — the sixth time since December the volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes Peninsula.