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Yellowstone National Park officials disclosed that visitors have thrown a wide variety of objects into the park's hydrothermal vents this year, ranging from unusual to unsanitary to inexplicable. The park did not release a complete inventory, but staff described the debris as a mix of the wacky, the yucky, and the puzzling.
The article revisits the 1991 Pinatubo eruption, when scientists deployed instruments that detected volcanic unrest and issued an evacuation order shortly before a massive explosion killed over 800 people, saving hundreds of thousands more. It notes that despite this success, the forecast was largely an educated guess rather than a precise prediction, and that volcanology has since improved through better instrumentation and machine learning.