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Is Yellowstone ground ever really at rest, or is it always scheming its next surprise? On April 10, 2025, geologists ...
There’s a new milky blue pool in Yellowstone National Park.
Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...
The dominant rock type in the Yellowstone region is rhyolite, and that is very rich in silica. As hot water circulates underground, it can dissolve that silica and bring it to the surface, where it is ...
A team of UConn College of Engineering (CoE) researchers, led by Burcu Beykal, assistant professor in CoE's Department of ...
A new study by Audubon California has found a 15% increase in the number of shore birds at the Salton Sea, despite a prolonged ecological decline there.
If fully developed, the Salton Sea Known Geothermal Resource Area — an underground reservoir covering more than 100,000 acres — could transform the country's geothermal landscape.
Creating a stronger future for the Salton Sea depends on our unity, especially as we navigate the uncertainties of the lithium industry.
A lithium gold rush is erupting beneath California's Salton Sea, where a $540 billion discovery could supercharge U.S. battery independence.
Sink or swim time for Salton Sea? Momentum builds for pricey lake restoration California's biggest lake has languished for decades as increased salinity, a sinking waterline and a foul smell have ...
Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...
Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...