An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. Co-founder Dylan Thuras and a neighborhood of Atlas Obscura reporters explore a new wonder every day, Monday through Thursday. In under 15 minutes, they’ll take you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Our theme and end credit music is composed by Sam Tyndall.
Is the Supervolcano Beneath Yellowstone About to Explode?
All those hot springs, geysers, and greenery that make Yellowstone National Park famous are powered by an enormous volcano underneath it. And, according to the internet’s most excitable corners, it’s just itching to explode.
Today, we’re sharing an episode from Are We Doomed?, the NPR Network podcast about “the end of the world.” Host Ben Bradford explores the anxieties of our times and tries to understand what’s real and what’s imagined. In this case, the Yellowstone supervolcano — which is almost certainly not about to blow its top.
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