Volcanoes possess the ability to paralyse air traffic, cover the landscape with ashes and destroy villages. In short, an eruption is a life-threatening spectacle. But while volcanoes may be dangerous, ...

Groups of tourists had to seek safety on Monday, when Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest active volcano erupted. The volcano is located on the Italian island of Sicily and is a popular tourist ...

On Monday morning local time, a huge cloud of ash, hot gas and rock fragments began spewing from Italy’s Mount Etna. An enormous plume was seen stretching several kilometres into the sky from the ...

Sicily's Mount Etna erupted last week with a dense column of ash and smoke thrown thousands of feet in the air as satellites looked on from above. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the ...

June 2 (UPI) --Italy's Mount Etna on the island of Sicily erupted Monday spewing ash and hot lava that sent tourists, who were summiting the mountain, fleeing. The massive eruption also collapsed the ...

(CNN) — A massive eruption at Mount Etna forced tourists to flee the volcano on Monday after a plume of high temperature gases, ash and rock “several kilometers high” billowed into the air above them, ...