Italy’s Campi Flegrei is nothing like your average volcano. It’s not a mountain, but an eight-mile-wide, bowl-shaped caldera centered on the Gulf of Pozzuoli, just outside Naples. The unsubmerged ...

Federal scientists are pushing back against viral claims that “mega eruptions” could strike within days, even as they quietly ...

In Greek and Roman mythology, the Campi Flegrei volcano is depicted as the entrance to the underworld. Its eruptions thousands of years ago blocked out the sun, turning summer into winter. And now the ...

Forget Italy’s most famous active volcano, Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed Pompei in 79 AD. The most dangerous volcanic threat in Italy right now is one you’ve probably never heard of: Campi Flegrei, or ...

Rome (CNN) — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck south of Naples, Italy, on Tuesday, just days after the volcanic region saw its strongest earthquake in 40 years, according to Italy’s National Institute ...

“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, ...

Italy is one of the few countries in Europe where millions of people live in the shadow of active volcanoes. For many residents and foreign buyers, the appeal of living near an Italian volcano is ...