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.

The 80 dormant volcanoes of the Chaîne des Puys, located deep in France's central Auvergne region, are a geological wonder listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The green slopes attract ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...