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Yellowstone’s hydrothermal system has been powered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for at least the last ~2 million years by the release of heat from the magmatic system in the subsurface.

Tourism to Yellowstone National Park, which attracts millions of visitors a year searching for spectacular scenery, geothermal wonders, and a pristine environment, is responsible for generating nearly 2.3 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each year, a new study says.

Geologists study the rock record to understand how our world came to be and to try to determine what geologic events might occur in the future. The field of geochronology provides the means for geologists to know when these past events took place.

Mitigating the effects of the 1959 Madison Slide required a complex response of federal, local, and private organizations. The joint efforts stabilized what could have been a secondary disaster of a flood following the Hebgen Lake earthquake.

The landscape of the greater Yellowstone region has evolved gradually over millennia, punctuated by rare cataclysmic events such as volcanic eruptions, major earthquakes, and glacial outburst floods.

Sediment from the bottoms of lakes in Yellowstone contain records of past changes to the landscape—including how hydrothermal activity, vegetation, and climate in Lower Geyser Basin have evolved over time. The place used to look much different than it does today…

Does Yellowstone National Park witness a "normal" number of earthquakes each year?

Expectations that the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park would make the ecosystem whole again with the return of the apex predator have not been fulfilled, as vegetative imbalances remain across the park, according to recent research.

During the first week of February, the National Park Service and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service moved 116 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Poplar, Montana.

Understanding how stable isotopes are used for tracking water is the story of USGS scientist Irving Friedman (1920–2005), a scientist considered by many to be the “father of isotope hydrology” because of his numerous innovative breakthroughs.