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

A geological study of Greece’s Methana volcano reveals it erupted after a dormant period of about 100,000 years, challenging the 10,000-year benchmark for declaring volcanoes extinct. The research ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

A new study published by the Geophysical Research Letters journal has found that the volcano's summit has risen by 3.5in between July 2023 and May 2024 and still hasn't deflated. Researchers said this ...

The youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background. The Methana volcano in Greece appeared dormant for over 100,000 years, but magma was ...