Mazama Energy’s federal grant to drill into superhot rock on the western flank of Newberry Volcano in central Oregon represents the latest chapter in a decades-long effort to unlock geothermal power ...
In second grade, Abigail Nalesnik worked on a volcano project for school and said that it kicked off a lifelong love of volcanoes. However, as an undergraduate student at Salisbury University living ...
Video reporting from that project captures how researchers balanced the promise of enormous heat with the reality of working above a magma chamber, a precedent that now informs U.S. plans and is ...
The project, which would be a scientific first if successful, would see boreholes drilled about 1.3 miles down through the earth’s crust at a volcano known as Krafla, located in the northeast of ...
Gustavo Bejar-Lopez has been interested in volcanoes since he was a child. Now, the Michigan Technological University Ph.D. student is a budding volcanologist mentoring young geologists from his ...