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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon that was forecast to erupt sometime this year doesn’t look imminent, according to volcanologists who are closely monitoring it. The Axial Seamount is ...

Hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, Deb Kelley watched a pod of dolphins swim past the research vessel Atlantis as the sun set on the Pacific Ocean. But beneath the calm seas lurked a behemoth: ...

The owner of a popular Old Town gift shop had a scare Tuesday when a man entered the store, made threats, and attempted to steal items. The Oregon Supreme Court has ruled that a defendant’s criminal ...

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 ...

The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves – erupted in April 2015, spewing a mile’s worth of lava onto the sea floor.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The Newberry Volcano may become a national geothermal ...