- Horizon
- Supervolcanoes - It is little known that lying underneath
one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone
Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world.
The impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend
- huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy
would probably collapse, and thousands might die.
- Horizon
- Supervolcanoes: Transcript - Full transcript of a
BBC documentary on the threat posed by supervolcanoes, and
how the danger was discovered.
- Supervolcanoes
could trigger global freeze [BBC News] - The threat
of climate change caused by human activity could turn out
to be a minor problem by comparison with a scarcely acknowledged
natural hazard. Geologists say there is a real risk that
sooner or later a supervolcano will erupt with devastating
force, sending temperatures plunging on a hemispheric or
even global scale. A report by the BBC Two programme Horizon
on one supervolcano, at Yellowstone national park in the
US, says it is overdue for an eruption. (February
3, 2000)
- Massive
volcanoes in Siberia nearly wiped out all life on earth
[TIME magazine] (September 18, 1995)
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