Since silicic magmas are colder and goopier than mafic magmas, dissolved gases have a harder time venting out of them. This ...

First, Route 66 was bypassed by Interstate 40, directing travelers away from the businesses that had popped up to serve them over the preceding decades, leaving Amboy to fade into a ghost town. In ...

Honokōhau, on the Kona side, is federal — part of the Army Corps’ navigation network with regular dredging and a standing maintenance budget. Each year, Washington covers the cost because tourists ...

Big Island resident, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo grad and “Chief of War” set geologist Michelle Mazzetti is talking about ...

Researchers Megan Porter and Becky Chong received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2022 to study biodiversity ...

Hawaii’s most active volcano, Kilauea, just delivered its most powerful eruption in recent memory — with double lava ...

Don Hurzeler, a Kailua-Kona resident, reported large, yet incredibly light, lava rock raining on his truck as he drove home ...

Built to reopen a path from a crucial boat ramp to the ocean, the new channel through volcanic debris has already vanished.

Mount Kilauea in Hawaii began an active eruption on Oct. 17. Kilauea hit record-breaking lava flows at 1,500 feet, and the plume of gas above the fountain rose to over 16,000 feet. The light show ...

Episode 35 fountains produced an estimated 13 million cubic yards of lava. The combined average eruption rate was over 500 ...

The latest episode of the Kilauea volcano eruption produced an estimated 13 million cubic yards of lava, which covered about ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists said episode 35 of the ongoing Halemaumau eruption ended abruptly today at 3:32 a.m. after 7.5 hours of continuous lava fountaining. The south vent stopped ...