The Phlegraean Fields in the west of Naples have entered the first stage of a new caldera cycle. That is the conclusion vulcanologists have reached on the basis of rock analysis and with the help ...

PHLEGRAEAN FIELDS, Italy — Not far from Naples is a volcanic phenomenon that puffs clouds of vapor continuously. It isn’t Vesuvius, whose spectacular eruption doomed the flourishing Roman ...

Shocks in the Phlegraean Fields, the crisis unit activated: «But here no one knows what to do» Most violent seismic swarm of the last forty years, night on the streets for many.

The volcanic nature of the Campi Flegrei, or Phlegraean Fields, was known already in ancient times. The various hot springs and fumaroles were a popular holiday destination for wealthy Romans and ...

The Phlegraean Fields occupy a unique position in volcanology. In 1538, an eruption created Italy's Monte Nuovo, a 1,500-foot cinder cone volcano, over a period of just six days.

Pozzuoli, Italy - In the red zone of the awakening Phlegraean Fields, the most dangerous volcano in Europe, 2,000-year-old ruins are rising from the earth, thrust upward by hydrothermal force.

It is a stretch of southern Italy known as the Phlegraean Fields, or "burning fields." According to Greek mythology, this is where the god of fire, Hephaestus, made his home and where an ...

Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This huge caldera is a part of the Campanian volcanic arc, which includes ...

In the Phlegraean Fields, an Italian volcanic region, a microscopic algae called Cyanidioschyzon merolae thrives in extreme conditions. Researchers from Michigan State University are exploring its ...

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The Phlegræan Fields (left) and Mount Vesuvius, after Scipione Breislak’s map of 1801. Baiae lies at the northeastern tip of the peninsula of Bacoli, at the extreme westerly end of the Fields.