As people from around the world are captivated by episodic lava fountaining during the ongoing Kilauea eruption in Halema‘uma‘u, let’s use the current pause and transition our attention back to the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Lava is shooting 100 feet to 200 feet (30 to 60 meters) into the air as Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupts for the first time in nearly 40 years. For now, ...

Lava fountains at the summit of Kilauea have been shining a spotlight on Hawaii’s most active volcano but let us not forget the larger one looming in the background of Kilauea. Mauna Loa is currently ...

Native Hawaiian oral traditions attribute these actions to Hawaiian patron goddess of hula dancers, chants, sorcery and ...

Research conducted by a University of Miami scientist and his graduate assistant accurately predicted which of the two rift zones of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano would erupt. The Mauna Loa, the world's ...

Now that the world’s largest active volcano erupted for the first time since 1984, officials expect crowds to flood to Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park in hopes of witnessing the historic event. Those ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...

When a town in Hawaii was threatened by lava in 1935, a group of airplanes tried to redirect the flow. Mark Strauss A bomb detonates on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, near the 8,500-foot-elevation source ...

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...