Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park’s supervolcano that fuels geysers and mudspots is waning, experts say

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Yellowstone National Park’s supervolcano fuels famous geysers, mudspots and fumaroles, but new finds suggest the volcanic caldera’s power is ‘waning.’ Scientists discovered two colossal super-eruptions 8.7 and 9 million years ago, which suggests the massive volcano, on average, erupted once every 500,000 years. Because the park has only experienced two similar events in over the … Read more

Yellowstone National Park has 11 earthquakes in just 24 hours

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Nearly a dozen earthquakes shook parts of Yellowstone National Park in just 24 hours on Friday, May 29. The US Geological Survey reported 11 quakes in West Yellowstone Montanan, with tremors ranging from 1.6 to 3.1 magnitude on the Richter scale. The tremors were about three miles deep and hit 15 miles outside of the … Read more

Woman suffers burns after illegally entering Yellowstone National Park during shutdown

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Woman suffers burns after illegally entering Yellowstone National Park during shutdown and ‘falling backwards into a hot spring while taking pictures’ A woman who entered Yellowstone National Park illegally on Tuesday suffered burns when she fell into a hot spring Yellowstone has been shut off to the public since March 24 amid the ongoing coronavirus … Read more

Surging bison population in Yellowstone are eating all the parks shrubs and grass

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A surging bison population in Yellowstone National Park is doing serious and steady damage to the park’s biological diversity. A team of researchers from Oregon State University, Corvallis studied the animal’s effects on the park’s landscape, focusing primarily on the Lamar Valley, an area on the park’s eastern edge. The team analyzed data spanning more … Read more

Huge chunk of Yellowstone National Park, the size of Chicago, is ‘breathing’ in and out

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An area the size of Chicago in Yellowstone National Park was found to inflate and deflate by several inches over the past decade The Norris Geyser Basin, the park’s oldest, hottest and most dynamic thermal area in, rising 5.9 inches each year from 2013 to 2015. Now, using satellite radar and GPS data, experts have … Read more

Vintage images of National Parks Airways, which used to fly tourists to Yellowstone National Park

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These rare black-and-white images chart the history of one of America’s most short-lived airlines. They show the fleet and passengers of National Parks Airways (NPA), which operated for a mere 10 years, between 1927 and 1937, in Utah, Idaho and Montana. It would eventually capitalise on the boom in Yellowstone National Park tourism and ferry … Read more