No fewer than 80 volcanoes sit on the Chaîne des Puys, a 32-kilometre long but only four kilometre wide strip of verdant land ...

Hit by the industrial decline of the 1980s, France's remote Auvergne region has turned to the extinct volcanoes towering over its countryside to breathe fresh life into the area.

Clermont-Ferrand is the capital of the Auvergne region, located in central France. The area is perhaps best known for its impressive volcanic terrain, with over 80 volcanoes spread across a 32 ...

The range of 80 dormant volcanoes in central France known as the Chaîne des Puys has (finally) been granted World Heritage status by Unesco. The chain of volcanoes becomes mainland France's first ...

THE Auvergne volcanoes threaten to be as periodic a subject of controversy as the authorship of the letters of Junius. It is only seven years since the last eruption of letters. At that time I ...

“At Nyiragongo,” says Kolzenburg, “we want to collect enough data to optimize a model for that specific volcano in collaboration with Oryaëlle Chevrel from the Université Clermont Auvergne. When the ...

Fifteen minutes later and the train’s arrived on the peak of the Puy-de-Dome volcano. At 1,465m above sea level, it’s the highest volcano in the area, the purpose of an ascent principally to ...

It seems fitting to discover the innate culture of the Auvergne region while France is so politically at odds with itself. Had the tectonic plates achieved a full rupture millions of years ago, what ...

I often find that most of what I want, or need, can be found within the Auvergne, and there are still lots I haven’t seen, even after fifteen years here." Finding out more The region knows its USP.

Nyiragongo, one of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, is an active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Researchers from UB, the Université Clermont Auvergne and Háskóli Íslands collect ...