The discovery of 86,276 previously undetected earthquakes beneath Yellowstone has reignited public anxiety about the park’s vast supervolcano and what it might be quietly preparing underground. The ...

Might America’s most feared volcano actually be far less dangerous now than the headlines let on? For decades, Yellowstone has been portrayed as some sort of ticking geological time bomb, with its ...

(via PBS Terra) Yellowstone was massive. Roughly a thousand times larger than the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the biggest eruption in the history of the continental United States. And if Yellowstone ...