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

If you ever have the chance to go to Yellowstone National Park, do so in order to see the geysers. Water seeps down into the ...

Supervolcanoes are bigger than you think, and there are more of them than you think. There are, in fact, eight supervolcanoes around the world that have changed the geography of continents and caused ...

Editor's note:Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Shaul Hurwitz, research ...

Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to blow this year. While “fascinating” and spectacular, nobody’s worried ...

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 ...

Night - Mostly clear with a 59% chance of precipitation. Winds from NE to ENE. The overnight low will be -31 °F (-35 °C). Sunny with a high of 4 °F (-15.6 °C). Winds variable. Cloudy today ...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is erupting with fountains of lava. Check out a USGS livestream from within the Halema'uma'u crater. Kilauea volcano entered its fourth eruptive episode on Thursday ...

Mostly sunny with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C). Winds from NNE to N at 9 mph (14.5 kph). Night - Mostly clear. Winds N at 9 mph (14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10 °C). Mostly sunny ...

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.