A visitor to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has died after entering a closed section on the east side of the Kilauea caldera, officials said. Although Kilauea volcano has had ongoing episodic ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

The alert level for Mauna Loa is currently “normal”; we expect to see additional changes such as increased seismicity or gas emissions before any future eruption. Even during quiet times, keeping a ...

A massive, iron-rich structure sitting at the base of Earth’s mantle beneath the Hawaiian Islands may be doing more than scientists previously understood to fuel the archipelago’s volcanic activity.

Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to ...

Kilauea, the restless shield volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been erupting in dramatic, repeating bursts since late 2024, with lava fountains and volcanic gas-and-ash plumes rising high above the ...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii begins Episode 42 of its summit eruption, with lava fountains confined to Halemaumau crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been shooting lava from its summit crater about once a week since late last year, delighting residents, visitors and online viewers alike with a firehose of ...

Most webcams used by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory take a snapshot every few minutes to conserve bandwidth, but three webcams are currently “livestreaming” — meaning they transmit real-time ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Officials are working to evacuate residents after days of earthquakes resulted in an eruption of lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. The U.S. Geological Survey reports a ...

PAHOA, Hawaii -- Hawaii's Kilauea volcano destroyed 26 homes and spewed lava hundreds of feet into the air, leaving evacuated residents unsure how long they might be displaced. In revised figures ...