Often spotted by onlookers in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, or even by YouTube livestream viewers, the long, ashy gray or ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Lava from the world’s largest volcano is no longer an imminent threat to the main highway across the Big Island of Hawaii, scientists said Thursday, a development that was a welcome ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists can't know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale signs. That happened two years ago with the world's largest active volcano. About ...

In the late hours of Nov. 27, 2022, Mauna Loa began erupting. Lava was visible on the west side of the Island of Hawaii, from Kailua-Kona to Waikoloa. Social media was ablaze with pictures and ...

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27, 2022.

Is it possible to stop a lava flow? As AccuWeather points out, many have tried in the past. The U.S. Air Force tried to bomb the lava tubes at Mauna Loa in 1935. Iceland tried to cool a lava flow with ...

Mauna Loa volcano stands as the largest and most active volcano on Earth. With a rich history of eruptions that have shaped the Island of Hawai’s geography, Mauna Loa has captivated the fascination of ...

Access to the Mauna Loa Observatory could be restored by April, more than two years after the eruption of its namesake volcano cut it off from the rest of the island. The National Oceanic and ...

In ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or the Hawaiian language, we might call them puahiohio, or whirlwinds. In meteorological terms, these ...

The magma that comes out of Mauna Loa comes from a series of magma chambers found between about 1 and 25 miles (2 and 40 km) below the surface. These magma chambers are only temporary storage places ...