For hundreds of thousands of years, Mount Taftan stood quietly in southeastern Iran, close to the border with Pakistan. At nearly 12,000 feet tall, the volcano has long been considered extinct, a ...

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 ...

Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia has been dormant for all of recorded history. A long-dormant volcano has just erupted for the first time in recorded history. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia's ...