The death of a 26-year-old Brazilian publicist and trekker has raised concerns about the safety of volcano tourism ...

In Bolivia's remote Andes, an ancient volcano is stirring, and scientists are watching closely. Known as a Zombie Volcano, ...

Activity has been detected under a dormant volcano near Sitka, Alaska.Mount Edgecumbe has been inactive for at least 800 years but, following a spate of earthquakes in the area earlier this year ...

Dormant volcanoes may be more dangerous than previously thought. Story by Joseph Shavit • 1w. F or decades, scientists ...

Previously dormant volcanoes in two widely separated areas of the Pacific "ring of fire" are showing signs of life, as documented by new images taken by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission ...

An ancient and dormant volcano is waking up after nearly 800 years. The volcano, known as Mt. Edgecumbe, is found just 15 miles west of Sitka, Alaska.

The three Aleutian volcanoes that have been erupting simultaneously in recent months could be joined by a fourth. Davidof Volcano in the Western Aleutians has remained inactive for thousands of years.

So, it is important to know what was the reason for this change in eruption style," she says. The last volcanic eruptions occurred 30,000 years ago, and since then, the volcano has been dormant again.

Active vs. dormant volcanoes. Obviously, visible lava spewing from a volcano’s caldera, like Hawai’i’s Mount Kīlauea or Grimsvötn in Iceland, indicates that a volcano is active.

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

A once long-dormant volcano in Iceland is erupting again and impacting activity in a populated region nearby. The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at ...

Astronomers have found a rare set of dormant volcanoes on the far side of the moon that once spewed much different material across the lunar surface. NASA's LRO probe found the volcanoes.