Buried beneath the high desert on the Oregon–Nevada line, an ancient volcanic scar is suddenly being talked about in the same breath as Saudi oil fields. Researchers say the McDermitt Caldera holds ...

The largest active volcano in Oregon is being drilled into as part of an effort to create a cleaner energy source. Engineers are building a geothermal power plant that taps into the energy of the ...

An active underwater volcano off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt mid-to-late 2026. The Axial Seamount volcano is located nearly a mile beneath the sea, ...

Hidden beneath an ancient volcanic basin on the Oregon and Nevada border, geologists say the United States may be sitting on the largest known lithium resource on Earth. The McDermitt Caldera, a vast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post On the slopes of an Oregon volcano, engineers are building the hottest geothermal power plant on Earth. The plant ...

One year ago, scientists made a surprisingly concrete prediction: Before 2025 was out, they said, Axial volcano — a submerged seamount near Oregon in the Northern Pacific Ocean — would erupt. That ...

University of Birmingham volcanologist Mike Cassidy argued that the biggest danger could come, not from Yellowstone and Mount Etna, but from hidden volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely ...