Geothermal hot springs are natural vents where heated water, enriched with dissolved silica, emerges at the Earth’s surface. As the water cools, silica precipitates to form siliceous sinter deposits, ...

Geothermal hot springs represent unique and extreme ecosystems where high temperatures, variable pH and diverse geochemical conditions converge to create natural laboratories for microbial evolution.

This essay takes me rather far afield from my normal trails, but there are so many fascinating aspects to these springs, and so many things still to be discovered, that I could not resist trying to ...

This story is part of the Hotspots series exploring Colorado's geothermal energy industry by CPR's Climate Solutions Team. Explore the series here. Fred Henderson doesn’t expect to live long enough to ...