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  "id": 9152602,
  "title": "The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/the-end-of-humanity-what-would-happen-if-the-yellowstone-supervolcano",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-22T08:32:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260922005655.htm"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases. In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption that blasts ash tens of kilometers into the atmosphere, unleashes deadly pyroclastic flows,…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "End of humanity? Blow‑by‑blow account of what would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/end-of-humanity-blow-by-blow-account-of-what-would-happen-if-the",
        "published": "2026-09-21T14:40:06.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}