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Birches of Etna and the climate change

Posted on 15/07/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

They arrived in Sicily “against their will”, transported by the conditions created thanks to the immense glaciations that hit Europe between 70,000 and 10,000 years ago. The birch trees of Mount Etna remained even after the ice retreated, finding an ideal habitat on this gigantic volcano which today reaches 3369 meters high. The Scandinavian plants […]

Tour on Mt Etna: what you can and cannot do

Posted on 08/07/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

It can happen. It happens. The tourist arrives with many expectations… he/she wants to see an eruption, a crater, a mountain slope, but the guide must dismantle their enthusiasm. And immediately there is disbelief, anger and a negative review! “They promised me a ride on off-road tracks but instead we took normal asphalted roads!”, “We […]

Powerful roars and lots of ash: Etna show

Posted on 07/07/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Roars, puffs, column of ash…! It all seemed over but as we often say… it’s Etna that decides. And always surprising. And so the eruptive activity of the Voragine crater (video by Michele Mammino here) after about 24 hours of pause resumed with force around 2 am on July 7th, to continue until 9 am […]

Etna: the great Voragine eruption started

Posted on 04/07/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The Institute of Volcanology (INGV) statement took a while to arrive, but in the end it declared what all of us inhabitants – and lucky tourists – were already seeing. The explosive activity of the Voragine crater, one of the four summits of Etna, increased dramatically during the afternoon and evolved into a lava fountain […]

The Voragine: is the eruption coming to its top?

Posted on 30/06/2024 (20/12/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

With the statement issued by the INGV (Geo-Volcanology Institute) on 29th June, the eruption at Mt Etna’s Voragine crater, one of the largest among the summit ones, seems to be coming to its top. “It seems”, we must say, because Etna does its own thing, and almost never respects the parameters and signals that it […]