While the chance for an eruption is extremely low, the supervolcano is still likely to blame. A 2025 study from the United States Geological Survey determined that Yellowstone’s magma chamber ...

Shortly before 10 a.m. on July 23, 2024, a violent hydrothermal blast ripped through Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone, hurling mud and steam into a towering plume estimated at 400 to 600 feet high. The ...

Far beneath Yellowstone’s famous geysers, the ground is quietly on the move. Parts of the volcanic system are rising by millimeters to centimeters, forming a broad, city-scale bulge that only shows up ...

A caldera—like the one at Yellowstone Park spanning parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana—is a large depression or hollow formed when a volcano erupts and the magma chamber beneath it empties, leading ...

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Videos of animals appearing to flee Yellowstone National Park have gone viral, leading to speculation that the park’s infamous “supervolcano” may be about to blow. Climate website Green Matters ...