Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding how volcanoes work. Technological advancements — such as livestreaming ...

Volunteers agreed to help remove tephra from the roofs, gutters, and water catchment systems of more than 60 homes, which is ...

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.

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 ...

When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

Lava began bubbling out of Hawaii’s most active volcano once again on Tuesday as Kilauea’s sporadic eruption resumed. The eruption restarted at midday when molten rock began pouring out of a vent in ...

Few places on Earth demonstrate the raw power of geological activity like volcanoes. The dynamic processes beneath our planet's crust are the reasons behind (or rather, under) events like the July ...