About 3,800 years ago Yellowstone National Park’s Lower Geyser Basin underwent a significant environmental change. Montana State University paleoecologist Christopher Schiller and his colleagues have ...

Home to Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, the Midway Geyser Basin leaves visitors in awe of its rainbow-colored pools and powerful geyser. In addition to the Grand Prismatic Spring, the Midway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a photograph of Twin Buttes in Lower Geyser Basin looking to the northwest, with Excelsior Geyser of Midway Geyser Basin ...

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 ...

Yellowstone National Park is full of surprises. With more than 10,000 geothermal features dotted across its forests and basins, this wild landscape of steam, mudpots, hot springs, and jets of boiling ...

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On a trip to Yellowstone National Park back in August, I came to a stop at the turnoff for Firehole Lake Drive, where I had hoped to cruise through an active thermal area with geysers and hot springs.