In Italy, a super volcano outside of Naples is stirring in a way it hasn't for centuries. And hundreds of thousands of people live right by it. In Greek and Roman mythology, the Campi Flegrei volcano ...

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The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about. By ...

“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, ...

Mount Vesuvius does not sit quietly in the background. It rises behind the city like a reminder. Of power. Of history. Of fragility. Naples grew beneath its shadow, shaped by the sea in front of it ...

For years, scientists believed the volcano and its surrounding ecosystem were extinct.

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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 ...