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

An update from the County of Hawaii Mayor’s Office on Monday stated the wildfire located on the Hilo side of Mana Road and 7 miles from the Mauna Kea Access Road is currently 60% contained. It had ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano had its latest eruption on Jan. 12, flowing lava for nearly 10 hours and attracting heavy traffic to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The volcano began erupting at 8:22 a.m.