Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor ...

Seán Duke is the Science and Health Editor for Newsweek, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has 25 years of experience as a science journalist, and editor with The Irish Times, the Irish Independent ...

These trees were once part of a thriving forest, but then the cooling climate entombed them under thick layers of mountain ice.

Right now there’s a tree frozen up in the wilderness outside of Yellowstone National Park with names scrawled into the trunk. The vandals? A survey crew stranded in a snowstorm 132 years ago.

Thawing ice has unveiled remains of a long-lost forest in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, indicating the profound changes that have influenced the area – and perhaps what might lie ahead.

“When Forest Service colleagues and I identified ... “Scientists (like me) look to the past for examples of how the Yellowstone ecosystem has responded to periods of warming,” Whitlock ...

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont.— Four conservation groups today challenged a U.S. Forest Service plan to clearcut more than 4,600 acres of pine forests, log across an additional 9,000 acres, and bulldoze up ...

Amid big budget cuts, the Wyoming Legislature has tentatively earmarked $35,000 to helicopter a section of a historically ...

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont.— Conservation groups late Monday challenged a U.S. Forest Service plan to clearcut more than 5,500 acres of pine forests just outside Yellowstone National Park, in the Custer ...