High-lithium clays discovered in Nevada's McDermitt Caldera - a surface find that could transform the US clean energy chain.

A deer searches for food on July 9, 2024, at Yellowstone National Park. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun) The Yellowstone region today is wonderland. It is full of spectacular geysers and ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Lincoln, Montana, on July 6, 2017, followed by a 3.0 quake in roughly the same area on July 11 — and several aftershocks in between — finds people focused once ...

JACKSON — Scientists have mapped the precise route of the magma plume feeding the famed and sometimes-feared Yellowstone hotspot from the surface of the Earth all the way to its outer core. The source ...

One of Idaho’s natural gems is on the verge of being marred forever by development aimed at the ultra-wealthy. The caldera — a 50-mile-wide volcanic crater — is the remnant of a pair of massive ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the ...

During about 4–7 million years ago, the Yellowstone hotspot was located under southeastern Idaho, feeding eruptions occurring from the Heise volcanic field. That sequence included multiple large ...

Steamboat Geyser eruption seen through the trees in Yellowstone National Park on September 17, 2018. (Photo by Jacob W. Frank/ National Park Service) The Yellowstone region today is wonderland. It is ...