For centuries, Mount Taftan has been considered dormant volcano, a quiet sentinel in the Makran region of southeastern Iran. But recent satellite data shows subtle signs of swelling at its summit, ...

The sudden awakening of a volcano that had been quiet for roughly 12,000 years has transformed a remote corner of Ethiopia into a global focal point, as a towering ash plume shot into the sky like an ...

The Methana volcano in Greece, thought to be dormant for hundreds of thousands of years, has been found accumulating enormous amounts of magma underneath. For more than 100,000 years, the volcano ...

A nature photographer’s closeup of the breathtaking landscape atop Mexico’s highest peak, the dormant volcano Pico de Orizaba ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years could be gearing up for a massive explosion, according to new ...

Volcanic activity in northern Ethiopia's long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano subsided Tuesday, days after an eruption that left a trail of destruction in nearby villages and caused flight cancellations ...

Add to the long list of global warming concerns that melting ice caps could trigger more volcanic eruptions. Worse, researchers said Monday at a scientific conference in Prague, the increasing ...

Aug. 3 (UPI) --An eastern Russian volcano has erupted for the first time in more than 500 years, which may have been related to an 8.8 magnitude earthquake last week, experts said. The Krasheninnikov ...

The word dormant entered English in the late 14th century through Old French dormant, meaning “sleeping”. It comes from ...