In June, avid outdoorsman Greg Lester set out to finish the third leg of backpacking's Triple Crown by hiking the 3,000 miles of the Continental Divide Trail.He's home in Winston-Salem ...

Are we ready for a mega-blast from the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park?

Visiting America’s national parks is a treasured public pastime. The wetlands of Congaree in South Carolina, the depths of ...

A supervolcano at the Yellowstone National Park has reshaped the landscape of the area in the past. A future event would be a ...

Yellowstone National Park in the state of Wyoming is one of the United States' ecological treasures. Composed of more than 3,500 acres of diverse landscapes, Yellowstone is famous for its mountains ...

(THE CONVERSATION) From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just ...

Experts believe that this special shape is due to its eruption power being so immense that it completely obliterated the entire volcanic cone, leaving only a massive sunken basin. Currently, the ...

The destructive floodwaters that roared from the Beartooth Mountains in June 2022 resulted in a loss of $95 million in tourism spending in four counties in south-central Montana and a $128 million ...

One problem the melting roads won’t cause — despite rumors to the contrary — is an explosion of Yellowstone’s supervolcano, ...

From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, national parks offer some of America’s wildest and most iconic landscapes.

Rangers attempting to clean the Morning Glory Pool in September 1975.

Geothermal debris is a more common problem than you might think: Already this year, park staffers have removed more than ...