VIDEO COURTESY USGS Watch the live web cam of the Kilauea eruption. COURTESY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The view from the northwest rim of the Halemaumau crater and the summit caledera is seen in this ...

The 2018 eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii island sparked the largest open-ocean phytoplankton bloom ever recorded in the North ...

Although it may feel like it happened in an instant, the formation of the Island of Hawaii’s youngest black sand beach did not happen overnight. This week we explore how the beach at Pohoiki, near the ...

Scientists provided an update Thursday on the chances of an eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska, a situation being ...

Kilauea ash (top) was deposited where the bloom occurred. Credit: W. Cheah.

When the Kīlauea volcano erupted in May 2018 on Hawaiʻi Island, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly 5 miles ...

Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum recently ordered National Park sites to remain fully open. Proponents say it will speed up ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano started shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air during its latest eruption on Wednesday, April 16. The volcano entered episode 18 of its period of activity on Wednesday’s ...

One of the world's most active volcanoes surged back to life Wednesday night in Hawaii. It was Kilauea's 18th eruption since Dec. 23, 2024.

Kilauea has been erupting episodically — starting and stopping for a period — inside Halemaumau Crater within Hawaii ...