Appropriately, I was on a milestone birthday road trip around Sicily, from Palermo to Catania. The second-to-last stop: Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano and also its tallest, at 10,900 feet.

Europe's most active volcano is back at it. Italy's Mount Etna has erupted again, ejecting lava and ash into the Sicilian sky. The volcano, which has erupted every few months this year ...

Take a look at these amazing smoke rings bursting out of a volcano. in the Italian region of Sicily. They're coming from Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe. This rare smoke-show is ...

Mount Etna, Italy Mount Etna is Europe’s most active volcano, and offers climbers the chance to hike through ancient lava fields and if you are lucky, to witness the occasional volcanic activity.

Italy's Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli volcanoes erupted in recent days, spewing smoke and ash into the air. These volcanoes are two of the most active in the world — but they are not the only ...

When a geologist thinks or writes of volcanoes and volcanic action, it is the structure and products of such mountains as Etna and Vesuvius that are present to his mind. Nowhere over the whole ...

Behncke works at the Italian Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) which keeps an eye on all the country’s volcanoes. His focus is on Etna and the volcanoes on the Aeolian Islands ...