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The fact that a host of companies are interested in geothermal development just outside the borders of the Yellowstone National Park is no longer a secret, but experts now need to figure out how to do this without upsetting this unique habitat. Recently, experts created a map of its underground heat.
One of the hal... |
8 December 2011
03:08 GMT |
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A study partially funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and published in the December 2 issue of the top journal Science, shows that predictions of how wolves in Yellowstone National Park will react to climate change can be considerably improved.
In order to do that, the research team carried out an i... |
2 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Throughout the Yellowstone National Park, skeletons of dead animals permeate the landscape. In addition to adding charm to the place, they may also help experts determine what types of animal populations existed here in the past, and how many of the creatures were there. Under the Sun, the bones appear white, making ... |
29 March 2011
03:47 GMT |
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The Yellowstone supervolcano is one of the world's three known such structures, and readings collected lately show that it may be getting ready to blow up again. Researchers are currently seeking to determine the risk of that actually happen, as the consequences would be catastrophic.In its entirety, the caldera... |
21 January 2011
09:15 GMT |
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Throughout the summer of 2010, experts have installed a sensor network inside Yellowstone National Park, which is meant to give them the ability to keep an eye on what is going on inside the area, temperature-wise, nearly in real-time.In addition to being a beautiful area, and home to numerous species, Yellowstone is... |
1 October 2010
08:26 GMT |
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In a finding that may help explain the volcanic activity taking place in Yellowstone National Park, investigators managed to discover a plume of molten rock rising to the surface. They found the formation deep underground, right below the supervolcano. The new data could also be used to explain the various tectonic p... |
8 September 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Yellowstone was determined many years ago to be the caldera of a massive supervolcano, one so large that, if it were to blow up, it would cover the entire United States with feet of ash in just days. Geologists have also been interested in the formation, as it is one of the few volcanoes of this size out there, which... |
14 December 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Geologists recently announced that there might be more things that Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams have in common, other than the fact that they are all volcanoes. Preliminary studies seem to indicate that they draw their lava from the same enormous magma pool that spans the entire southwestern portio... |
26 October 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Hundreds of minor tremors over the past few weeks, which were covered in the national US press, prompted, at the time, concerns of a massive eruption at the Yellowstone national park, although recently scientists announced that there was no reason to be worried about. But, as the phenomena continue, more and more peo... |
13 January 2009
07:20 GMT |
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A series of minor tremors registered in the Yellowstone National Park has scientists worried and pondering on the possibility of a large-scale earthquake. It's not uncommon for small-intensity tremors to come in the prelude of a large shake, and seismic experts are all the more worried – thus far, the mach... |
30 December 2008
07:00 GMT |
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The Environment Protection Agency is recently acting out again, seeking to modify the existing legislation, which currently prevents companies from building coal-powered plants, oil refineries, and other such heavy-polluting facilities near national parks. The EPA doesn't act like its name, but, rather, tries to... |
19 November 2008
05:13 GMT |
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In 2005, the Bush administration finally managed to cancel Bill Clinton's bill, a piece of legislation that virtually banned all areas around national parks to commercial exploitation. This included a ban to building roads and phosphate mines, which would have adversely affected the environment. But this measure... |
27 October 2008
03:59 GMT |
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A new study conducted between 1998 and 2006 indicates that the eruption patterns of geysers in the Yellowstone National Park, US are slowing down and could even stop as a result of global warming. Temperature readings performed on five of the geysers in the famous national park show that two of the best known of them... |
10 July 2008
04:46 GMT |
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After a long hibernation period during its second Mars winter in the northern regions of the Home Plate, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is again on the move and is now investigating the Gusev Crater where it found what appears to be a deposit of pure silica similar to the one created around hydrothermal ve... |
23 May 2008
05:35 GMT |
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