A new study proposes a slightly scary idea: what if “extinct” volcanoes aren’t actually extinct, but just waiting? Slowly building a magma stockpile over time so they can one day reawaken and explode ...

The Hessian town of Amöneburg is situated on a 365-meter-high basalt cone left by an extinct volcano. It is located in a region that holds a European superlative in this regard. Traces from this era, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study published by the Geophysical Research Letters journal has found that the volcano's summit has risen by 3.5in between ...

'Extinct' volcanoes that haven't erupted for tens of thousands of years may not actually be inactive, but silently accumulating huge reservoirs of magma to fuel future outbursts. This worrying ...

Romania’s Ciomadul volcano last erupted some 30,000 years ago, but as a new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reports, between 5 to 14 cubic miles of magma still simmer below the ...

Scientists have analysed the terrifying power with which the volcano erupted ...

Volcanoes can be rich sources of metals. (Hafsteinn Karlsson/500px/Getty Images) Volcanoes can wreak devastation when they ...

Learn how scientists discovered that Methana, a volcano in Greece believed to be dormant, was actually collecting magma for millennia. There are more extinct volcanoes across the world than active ...

For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...

A volcano that lies close to the border between Iran and Pakistan may be nearing an eruption again for the first time in more than 700,000 years, a study has suggested. Scientists say that the Taftan ...