A group of players carries on with a volleyball game just steps away from an erupting volcano, creating a surreal and risky ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates.

Past “Volcano Watch” articles have summarized the episodic lava fountaining eruptions in Kilauea’s recent history—within the ...

Scientists have recently discovered how magma behaves beneath active volcanoes, opening up new possibilities for targeted ...

Geochemical analysis of erupted tephra samples over the past decade help scientists understand the temperature of Kilauea’s shallow magma system under the summit — and things have been “heating up!” ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory — after the next projected lava fountaining episode of the ongoing episodic eruption at the ...

Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world every day, most volcanoes spend the ...

The reservoir of one of Earth's most explosive volcanoes is quietly refilling with magma, scientists have revealed.

An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...

When Jasper Baur was a freshman at New York's Binghamton University, his interests centered on earth sciences. Then he got ...

Kīlauea, one of the most active volcanoes in Hawaii, had a series of violent steam explosions in 1924, and scientists discovered the cause.