How can lightning and solar storms be used to map magma beneath Yellowstone? Through magnetotelluric imaging, which provides ...

Deep within the Yellowstone Caldera, the bowl-shaped rock cauldron at the heart of Yellowstone National Park, there’s a clue that any future eruption will occur near the northeastern edge of the ...

In a 1951 paper titled "Exchange of function as a cause of geyser irregularity [Wyoming]" Marler documented geyser eruptions over more than 50 months of observations, including during Yellowstone's ...

“It’s not an explosive eruption, but calm effusions of lava flowing out of the caldera and across the seafloor.” For comparison, the Yellowstone “supervolcano” — a term Poland and other geologists don ...

Mount Kīlauea in Hawaii, which began its dramatic series of eruptions on December 23, has entered its fourth eruptive episode this week, with lava fountains and flows spewing from the Kaluapele ...

Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive eruption of a volcano north of Japan. The year 1831 was a very nasty one in terms ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is live-streaming the eruption on its YouTube channel. Thousands of people have tuned into the live stream, which focuses on the northwest rim of the caldera ...

Three people were killed and three others were injured in an attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Saturday, according to officials, in a move Russia said was in retaliation for Ukraine using ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.