Scientists can’t know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale warning signs.

Tiltmeters are a crucial component of the volcanic monitoring network in Hawaii. By detecting subtle changes in ground ...

Most visitors stay close to the action in Waikiki resorts, while some venture to Oahu's quieter North Shore or neighbouring islands of Maui, Kauai and the Big Island.

Thousands of Hawaii residents are coping with a shortage of inexpensive insurance in sprawling subdivisions built on Big Island generations ago in the two most hazardous lava zones ...

a research geologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and co-author of a new study in Nature Communications. When pressure ...

Slabs of quarried lava rock that once formed street curbs ... relate to the decimation of Hawaii sandalwood forests when the valuable wood was widely harvested and exported on foreign cargo ...

A geologist by training, he had an enduring love of the natural world, but more specifically of rocks. The author captures ...

This hexagonal home, hidden on an Oahu mountaintop, is the best example of Vladimir Ossipoff’s blend of Japanese and American ...

The recent eruption at Napau Crater was the first on Kilauea’s middle East Rift Zone (ERZ) in six years. We often remember ...

He’s saved hunting dogs in lava tubes before, but never three at a time. Bella, Pua and Steven had fallen down into a narrow lava tube after chasing a pig. The dogs had been trapped for about ...

It’s also downslope from Hawaii’s most active volcano. Her house sits outside Pahoa Village in an area that was threatened by a lava flow from Kilauea volcano in 2014. The lava never reached ...