The restive Mayon Volcano in eastern Philippines sent a fast-moving avalanche of hot gas, ash, and fragmented volcanic rock cascading down its slopes on Friday, according to the Philippine Institute ...

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 ...

Kīlauea volcano on Hawaiʻi Island erupted again, shooting lava as high as 1,300 feet into the air. This eruption was particularly striking, even for a.

Fluid inclusions in volcanoes are dominantly composed of carbon dioxide. At magmatic temperatures — 2,192 degrees — the density of the carbon dioxide strongly depends on pressure, which is influenced ...

The state Senate Education Committee led by its new chair, Sen. Donna Mercado Kim, has deemed Hawaii’s public schools “broken ...

Along with the Azores, the Canaries are sometimes called, “the Hawaii of Europe.” ...

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.

Update at 3:41 a.m. Monday, Feb. 16, 2026: Episode 42 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu Crater episodic summit eruption at Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island ended at 11:38 p.m. Sunday (Feb. 15) and the ...

Kilauea, the restless shield volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, has been erupting in dramatic, repeating bursts since late 2024, with lava fountains and volcanic gas-and-ash plumes rising high above the ...

Scientists studying Kīlauea found that a major 2018 earthquake may have paused slow fault slip for nearly 60 years beneath the volcano.

Among the most well-known forbidden locations in the world, North Sentinel Island is part of the Indian-controlled Andaman Island archipelago, situated 80 miles off the coast of Myanmar in the Indian ...

The 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa was an extraordinary eruption in a lot of ways. It was the first eruption from this volcano in 38 years and the first Mauna Loa eruption that occurred during the current ...