New research used artificial earthquakes generated by a truck with a vibrating hydraulic plate to better understand the depth and characteristics of the top of the magma chamber beneath Yellowstone caldera.

While it’s easy to spend just an hour driving the 28-mile (40-kilometer) road through Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, stopping at the view areas then heading back onto Interstate 40, you really should stay a little longer, hike a trail or two, tour the historic Painted Desert Inn, and learn about the geology, paleontology, and history of this colorful national park.

Canaveral National Seashore staff is set to begin a roadways preservation project in the seashore's Apollo Beach district.

A gray wolf has been found dead in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials.