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As seen in photos released today, a group of six trespassers ventured off the visitor boardwalk; two apparently urinated and one dropped a rock into Yellowstone’s famous geyser.

A new study suggests that geysers, like Old Faithful, are affected by climate conditions, such as droughts. Shaul Hurwitz, a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, Ashish Kumar, a Stanford University statistician, and two National Park Service scientists have discovered that changes in the supply of underground water to a geyser can influence the amount of time between eruptions.  “Coupled with this decrease in precipitation, we see an increase in eruption [...]