Many hands have been wrung over Yellowstone National Park's supervolcano, which has the power to deliver global catastrophe with a single eruption. If the volcano exploded tomorrow, it would cover ...

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 ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera, which is located in eastern Idaho and west of Yellowstone National Park, occurred ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jul 31, 2025, 07:33am EDT Jul 31, 2025, 12:24pm EDT Colonnade in ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Researchers at Diamond Light Source have used advanced imaging to look at microscopic crystals, called nanolites, to see what they can tell us about volcanic eruptions. Highly explosive eruptions ...

As our climate warms beyond its historical range, scientists increasingly need to study climates deeper in the planet’s past to get information about our future. One object of study is a warming event ...

Four decades on, the gap between well-monitored volcanoes and unmonitored ones still shapes who lives and dies. The new ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...