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When active, Kīlauea pumps out thousands of tons of volcanic gases, namely water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide.
Julian Ako’s great-grandmother and her brother are buried on the property, and he has been fighting for years to protect them ...
HPR contributor Betsy Brown spoke with a USGS geologist during the last eruptive episode to find out what’s causing this ...
A two-vehicle collision on Kūhiō Highway in Kīlauea resulted in multiple injuries, a critical condition for a driver, and a ...
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...
Lava is once again shooting skyward at Kīlauea's summit in Hawaiʻi, as Episode 27 of explosive fountaining was captured by ...
Check out Kilauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, where the 29th episode of the ongoing eruption is underway. Lava began fountaining at around 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, and fountains have reached more than 200 ft.
This photo was taken by a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory monitoring webcam just before 6 a.m. July 9, 2025, during Episode 28 ...
Update at 3:37 p.m. July 9, 2025: Episode 28 of the ongoing episodic summit eruption of the Big Island’s Kīlauea volcano ...
Kīlauea’s eruption on September 10 ended after six days and “was the briefest of the five eruptions that have occurred at the summit of Kīlauea since 2020,” the USGS said.
Update at 3:12 a.m. July 21, 2025: Hawai‘i Island police on Sunday afternoon recovered the bodies of two women from within a massive iconic banyan tree that uprooted and crashed down a week ago across ...