There’s no doubt that in coming years, we’re going to need a lot of lithium. The growing market of electric automobiles, plus new household energy storage and large-scale battery farms, and the ...

There are about 12 supervolcanoes on Earth - each one at least seven times larger than Mount Tambora, which had the biggest eruption in recorded history. If all of these supervolcanoes erupted at once ...

The first supervolcano, Campi Flegrei, is located in Pozzuoli, Italy, near Naples. The region has experienced over 2,500 earthquakes in just the past three months. “The frequent earthquakes are part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two long-dormant “supervolcanoes” on two separate continents appear to be stirring to life. Well, maybe. In recent months, more ...

Earth has some massive volcanoes called "supervolcanoes" that can cause huge eruptions, way bigger than anything we’ve ever seen in modern times. Some of these, like Yellowstone in the U.S. and Campi ...

An international research team that studied an ancient supervolcano in Indonesia found that such volcanoes remain active and hazardous for thousands of years after a super-eruption, prompting the need ...

Supervolcanoes can produce massive eruptions of hundreds to thousands of cubic kilometers of magma -- up to 10,000 times more than a typical eruption from a Hawaiian volcano. They also produce vast ...

Whether you’re scrolling through cat memes on your phone, writing a glowing Game of Thrones review on your laptop, or running out to grab a coffee in your electric car, modern life relies on lithium — ...

Scientists have learned that massive caldera volcanoes, like the one stewing beneath Yellowstone, are ruled by geological processes far different than the ones governing conventional volcanoes. These ...

Researchers show that magma chambers under supervolcanoes are more like soggy sponges than reservoirs of molten rock. Before a volcano of this kind erupts, such mush must slowly be reactivated by heat ...

In order to rely on renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, the world is going to have to find efficient ways to store electricity, saving it up for times when the wind is not blowing and ...