As grizzly bears expand their range in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming into places where they haven’t been seen in a century or more, they’re increasingly encountering humans. From a report: Things intensified last summer as trails and campgrounds across the region flooded with inexperienced tourists seeking refuge in the outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic. Grizzly attacks spiked. Bear managers were inundated…
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Monster black hole spews energy as regularly as Yellowstone’s ‘Old Faithful’
Regular energy flares that emerge from galaxy ESO 253-3 are produced by a black hole about 20 times larger than the one at the center of the Milky Way. Source: https://www.livescience.com/old-faithful-black-hole.html
NASA missions help investigate an ‘Old Faithful’ active galaxy
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in the air. Now, an international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic equivalent, a distant galaxy that erupts roughly every 114 days. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-nasa-missions-faithful-galaxy.html…
Yellowstone’s reawakened geyser won’t spark a volcanic ‘big one’
Why a reawakened geyser isn’t worrying geologists. Source: https://www.livescience.com/steamboat-geyser-no-yellowstone-volcanic-eruption.html
Ancient life signs under dinosaur-killing Chicxulub crater
Researchers have found evidence for an ancient microbial ecosystem in a hydrothermal system beneath Mexico’s Chicxulub Crater, thought to be the site of the impact that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/dinosaur-killing-chicxulub-impact-crater-hydrothermal-microbial…
Man cooks chicken in Yellowstone hot springs
A visitor has been banned from the park after being caught attempting to use the hot springs to cook chicken. The natural beauty and hot springs of Ye… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340671/man-cooks-chicken-in-yellowstone-hot-springs…
800 years ago, Old Faithful went quiet. Soon, it might happen again.
Old Faithful, the famed geyser in Yellowstone National Park that erupts with captivating regularity, could soon go quiet. Source: https://www.livescience.com/old-faithful-took-a-long-break-800-years-ago-and-drought-might-force-it-to-happen-again.html
Bacterial Outbreak Infects Thousands After Factory Leak In China
schwit1 shares a report from CNN: Several thousand people in northwest China have tested positive for a bacterial disease, authorities said on Tuesday, in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year. The Health Commission of Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province, confirmed that 3,245 people had contracted the disease brucellosis, which is often caused by…
Study reveals biggest Yellowstone supervolcano eruption
The new study also suggests that the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park was much more explosive in its early history and could be slowing down. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/yellowstone-supervolcano-biggest-eruption-slowing…
America Is Reopening. Coronavirus Tracing Apps Aren’t Ready.
Smartphone apps meant to track where people have traveled or whom they have been near are mostly buggy, little-used or not ready for major rollouts, raising concerns as restrictions lift and infections rise. From a report: Local officials in Teton County, Wyo., home to Yellowstone National Park and resort town Jackson Hole, want to prevent a new wave of coronavirus cases…