When geologists study volcanic hazards or try to anticipate what a volcano may do in the future, one of their primary tools is to examine the volcano’s past behavior.
Few geological scenarios capture public imagination quite like a full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. The fear is understandable: three massive caldera-forming eruptions have occurred ...
A widespread bacteria called "soap scum" grows in Yellowstone National Park's thermal pools that on the surface doesn't seem ...
Yellowstone’s massive supervolcano and Mount St. Helens, the volcano that devastated Washington in 1980, are among America’s ...