Scientists fear volcano that was ‘extinct’ for 700,000 years has woken up as gas pressure builds - Researchers say that the ...

Deep in southeastern Iran, a remote volcanic massif that most of the world had never heard of is suddenly demanding attention. After roughly 700,000 years without a known eruption, Mount Taftan is ...

'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 ...

An ancient Irish volcano is challenging scientific understanding of how eruptions occur. The secrets that lie beneath ...

An international team of volcanologists working on Carlingford Mountain has found that liquid "magma chambers" do not always ...

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 ...

For more than 100,000 years, the Methana volcano in Greece appeared dormant. No lava, no explosions, no ash clouds. It appeared extinct, like many other volcanoes today. An international research team ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...

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 ...