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Gas pistons within the Drainhole vent at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

Thomas Jaggar, the scientist who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), is again enthralling visitors to Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park with...

Lava tube bubble bursts on the East Lae‘apuki lava delta.

Last week you read about the contributions made by Ben Haravitch, a student from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), who worked at HVO for the internship...

A two-part Volcano Watch in late January presented evidence for large explosions from Kīlauea. Ash rose into, or even above, the jet stream and was...

Numerous news reports have drawn attention to the impending transition in the Federal workforce. An estimated 60 percent of the Federal civilian...

Last November, 13.8 hectares (34 acres) of newly formed land and 4 hectares (10 acres) of former coastline at East Lae`apuki plunged into the ocean...

Among the scientists who study volcanoes, the petrologists are the ones who do detailed studies of the "hot stuff" in order to understand the behavior...

Visitors to Hawai`i from northern climates arrive with dreams of sunny beaches and gentle breezes. But this winter, rains of biblical proportions...

This week marks the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the most deadly earthquake to have hit the United States in recorded...