The nightmare version of Yellowstone makes for viral headlines. The real story is more useful: what scientists watch, what an eruption could do, and why panic is the wrong takeaway. Yellowstone has a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volcanic Activity Beneath Yellowstone's Massive Caldera Could Be on The Move Volcanic activity bubbling away beneath the ...

A caldera—like the one at Yellowstone Park spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana—is a large depression or hollow formed when a volcano erupts and the magma chamber beneath it empties, leading ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Science argues that Yellowstone’s volcanic system owes its heat and magma not to a deep plume rising from near the core-mantle boundary, but to forces generated ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Despite an explosive summer at Yellowstone National Park — marked by a thermal feature eruption ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small sample of the hats collected by the Yellowstone National Park Geology Program from sensitive thermal areas throughout the ...

Will Yellowstone erupt or are we blowing things out of proportion? We may have underestimated Yellowstone’s potential to blow its stack in the future. Chinese scientists have made a disconcerting find ...

Videos of animals appearing to flee Yellowstone National Park have gone viral, leading to speculation that the park’s infamous “supervolcano” may be about to blow. Climate website Green Matters ...

At least 28 rhyolitic lava flows, domes and tuffs erupted since the formation of Yellowstone Caldera 631,000 years ago.

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a column written by scientists and collaborators of the ...

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