Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, erupted with renewed intensity over the weekend, sending towering columns of ash and lava into the sky above eastern Sicily and creating dramatic scenes visible from nearby ski slopes. The eruption, which strengthened between 26 and 27 December, involved sustained Strombolian activity at several summit craters, including the Northeast Crater and Bocca Nuova. According to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), continuous explosio