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Ben Turner

Europe's most dangerous 'supervolcano' could be creeping toward eruption, scientists warn

A baron looking landscape with fumes rising from rocks.

A long-slumbering "supervolcano" in Italy is getting closer to a potential eruption for the first time since 1538, a new study warns — and the consequences could be catastrophic.

The Campi Flegrei volcano, near Naples in southern Italy, has a crust that is becoming weaker and more prone to rupturing, "making an eruption more likely", scientists behind a new study have said. 

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