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Tourists run for cover as Italy’s Mount Etna erupts in fiery show of smoke and ash

Video shows tourists running along a path on the flank of the vast volcano as smoke billows kilometres into the air.

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Residents and tourists were stunned as Italy's Mount Etna sends huge ash plume into air during eruption. Video credit: Giuseppe Distefano.
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Italy's Mount Etna erupts

Residents and tourists were stunned as Italy's Mount Etna sends huge ash plume into air during eruption. Video credit: Giuseppe Distefano.

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Car-sized boulders no match for lava as officials race to evacuate fishing village

Residents of a mostly abandoned village in Iceland refused to leave their homes even as molten rock broke through barriers set up to protect them.

  • Bronte Gossling
People wait for the ferry to arrive at Santorini on Monday.

Tourists scramble to leave Santorini amid quake fears

Schools have been closed and search and rescue teams have been sent to the Greek island in advance, after more than 200 tremors in three days sparked concern a bigger earthquake is coming.

  • Derek Gatopoulos
Made, a Bali taxi driver, waiting in the empty international arrivals hall close to midnight on Wednesday.

It was a sad night at Bali’s airport, but good news is in the air

The airlines had no answers: people stuck in Bali had to find a hotel or get comfortable at the airport.

  • Amilia Rosa and Zach Hope
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki spews volcanic materials during an eruption, in East Flores, Indonesia.

Volcanic eruption grounds Bali flights, leaving travellers stranded

Airlines have cancelled dozens of flights, leaving passengers stranded at airports in Australia and Indonesia.

  • Gemma Grant, Amilia Rosa, Zach Hope and Riley Walter
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The sky glows from the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Monday.

Nuns among the victims of volcanic eruption that burnt houses, convent

Volcanic material was thrown up to 6km from the crater of Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, blanketing nearby villages with debris and setting fire to buildings.

  • Jakobus Herin
View of the lava fountains pouring out from the new eruptive fissure opened at Svartsengi volcanic system, Iceland, this week. The fissure is 3km north of Grindavik.

Spectacular Iceland volcano eruption raises pollution fears

Fountains of glowing molten rock shot into the night sky when the volcano first erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula.

  • Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Tom Little
Antarctic wildlife

Sunburnt seals and penguins? Antarctica’s ozone layer the worst it’s been since 1970s

Seal pups and fledgling penguins could suffer sunburn and skin cancer, and it’s all down to volcanoes and bushfires.

  • Bianca Hall
Northern lights visible over the Icelandic volcano.

Timelapse shows Icelandic volcano erupting amid northern lights

A rare spectacle was documented in the Nordic country, which has experienced a series of volcano eruptions that prompted the declaration of a state of emergency. 

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