Mount Vesuvius looms over the palatial Forum Romanum, the civic center of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city 25 kilometers southeast of Naples, in southwestern Italy. Looking at the collapsed peak of the ...

“Today the volcano is quite calm,” says Paola Petrosino, as smoky wisps of water vapour seep from rocks behind her. “It’s in a phase of dormancy but it’s active.” We’re inside Vesuvius National Park, ...

The world's oldest volcano observatory has added satellites to its repertoire of instruments to monitor volcanic features flanking Naples. The result has been the most detailed view ever of ground ...

Mount Vesuvius, located 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) southeast of Naples, Italy, is the only active volcano on Europe’s mainland. It is a composite stratovolcano, made up of pyroclastic flows, lava flows ...

NAPLES, Italy -- Mount St. Helens, the rumbling volcano in Washington state, has belched out dramatic columns of steam and ash in the past week, but here in Naples, volcano experts regard all the ...

One of the world's most dangerous volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius, appears to "peer up" into the sky through an eerily circular hole in the clouds in this striking satellite image. The Operational Land ...