Snow in Hawaii sounds like an oxymoron, but it's more common than you think. From April 9-10, 1968, 57 years ago this week, ...

say eruption could end soon Scientists lowered the alert level for the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island from a warning to a watch on Saturday and said the mountain's first eruption in ...

Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads and hardens over a wider area. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a ...

Haleakala, a huge shield volcano on Maui. Snow is actually a fact of life each year over the islands' peaks. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, slumbering volcanoes on the Big Island, are the highest points ...