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January is Volcano Awareness Month, during which our "Volcano Watch" articles are exploring the geology of the Hawaiian Islands. The series continues...

Welcome to the 7th annual Volcano Awareness Month on the Island of Hawai‘i!

What do actor Mel Gibson, football quarterback Eli Manning, and Kīlauea Volcano's ongoing East Rift Zone eruption at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō have in common? They...

Last week, nearly 24,000 scientists from the U.S. and abroad met in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union's 2015 Fall Meeting, the largest...

This time last year, Kīlauea Volcano's lava flow was threatening Pāhoa. Today, the immediate danger to Puna communities no longer exists, but lava...

Many readers know that the Island of Hawai‘i is made of five volcanoes—Kīlauea, Mauna Loa, Hualālai, Mauna Kea, and Kohala.

Modern science could not exist without exchange of data and ideas. The exchange can be informal—at meetings and in casual conversations—or formal—in...

In early November, volcano scientists from Hawai‘i, Chile, Indonesia, Italy, and Japan participated in a workshop at the Mount Fuji Research Institute...

The surface of Kīlauea Volcano is rarely stationary. There are a variety of processes that each move or change the shape of the volcano and, when...

One of the wondrous things about visiting a young lava flow on the Island of Hawai‘i is encountering the tenacious plant life that emerges from a...