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Yellowstone Supervolcano Starts Showing Previously Undetected Seismic Activity
11+ hour, 12+ min ago (643+ words) Earthquakes at Yellowstone are generated by a fascinatingly complex interplay of tectonic, hydrothermal, and volcanic processes. Scientists track not just how many earthquakes occur, but where they cluster, how they migrate, and how individual swarms connect across years or even…...
12-Year-Old Fooling Around on Geology Trip Accidentally Makes "Discovery of a Lifetime."
2+ week, 12+ hour ago (902+ words) Science & Technology Journalist A 15-foot fossil is sitting on a table in a Kansas farmhouse right now, being cleaned piece by piece by a 12-year-old kid who has already put in more than 30 hours on the job. The creature it…...
Earth Has a Hidden Eighth Continent, Scientist Confirms
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (919+ words) Most of us learned the same list in school: seven continents, give or take a geography teacher's preference for merging Europe and Asia. Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, South America. Done. Settled. Move on. But geology, it turns…...
New Continental Rift Is Forming in Africa, Scientists Say
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1069+ words) Somewhere in the middle of Zambia, hot springs bubble quietly through the savanna. They look unremarkable. Travelers pass them. Locals have known them for generations. But the gas rising from that warm, trembling water has just set the scientific world…...
The U. S. States That Could Be Wiped Out By Yellowstone Triggering a Global Climate Disaster
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (800+ words) This is also a story that reaches far beyond Wyoming. Yellowstone is extraordinary, but it isn't the only geological system capable of reshaping civilizations. From the slopes above Naples to the volcanic zones of New Zealand and Indonesia, a handful…...
Antarctica Has Lost Ice Equal to 10 Los Angeleses in 30 Years, Scientists Warn
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1639+ words) Lifestyle & News Writer When researchers added up the total change, they discovered that roughly 12, 000 square kilometers (about 5, 000 square miles) of grounded ice had retreated since the early 1990s. To help people visualize the scale, researchers compared that area to about ten…...
Disturbing Discoveries Emerging as Glaciers Melt Around the World
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (126+ words) A Canadian athlete vanishes on an Austrian glacier A glove in the melting ice False information reaches the family An unsolved case preserved by ice The forensic doctor's admission Teenagers with bullet holes surface on Presena Glacier More than 80 bodies…...
Eerie "Woman's Voice' Recorded by NASA Deep in Ocean Still a Mystery 25 Years Later
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (588+ words) In 1999, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded an eerie sound deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. The organization deployed sophisticated hydrophones across the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean to detect underwater events. The loud noise, which some described…...
Ticking Time Bomb: The Largest Supervolcano In The US Is Awakening
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (1134+ words) Yellowstone has erupted three times in the past 2. 1 million years, and each event buried large portions of North America under ash. The last one happened 640, 000 years ago, a fact news outlets love to mention alongside coverage of earthquake swarms and…...
700, 000-Year-Old "Extinct" Volcano Could Be Awakening, Experts Warn
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (78+ words) A typically quiet volcano in southeastern Iran has risen by about 3. 5 inches, and it has not settled back down. This sudden change occurred between July 2023 and May 2024 at the Taftan volcano, a large stratovolcano near the Pakistan border. While this…...