Just because we mellow our brains and vibe on sunny beach vacations doesn’t mean we can’t be curious enough to learn about our hosts. Walk ankle-deep into surf and sand, but wade knee-deep into local ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

With its beautiful beaches, rainforests, volcanic mountains, and lava deserts, the island of Hawaii is the perfect road trip ...

Beaches in Kona on the Kohala Coast are particularly popular, but there are also a few coveted shores on the southwest coast. And then there are the volcanoes. Big Island's most visited volcanoes ...

Almost two years of repairs on Waikoloa Road in South Kohala are projected to wrap up by this spring for the 12-mile stretch of roadway, county officials said. The project is in the “pre-final ...

Hawaii cattle ranches use about one quarter of the state’s 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares), mostly on the upland slopes of Maui and Big Island volcanoes. The $40 million industry produces more ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes is back in action.The Kilauea volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is spewing lava once again, the seventh recorded episode in recent weeks.The ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.