After a few weeks' break, the Kīlauea volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park has resumed its eruptions with some spectacular lava fountains rising more than 160 feet into the sky.
Plans to replace facilities damaged by Kīlauea volcano's months long eruption in 2018 have been approved by the National Park Service at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, where work could begin in March. However, the work doesn't currently include replacing the visitor center.
At a time when there's great concern over vanishing wildlife species, and birds in particular, a rare bird has hatched at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park near the park's summit.
A slow motion eruption of sorts is continuing on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, with a sluggish stream of lava heading towards a highway that bisects the Big Island.
When Mauna Loa came to life Sunday, it not only marked the first time in nearly 40 years that the world's largest active volcano erupted, but also the first time in that time span that Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's two volcanoes erupted simultaneously.
Two moderate earthquakes, one of which registered as a magnitude 5 temblor, rattled the island of Hawaii on Friday morning and could be related to recent geologic activity at Mauna Loa in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A jump in the daily number of earthquakes that are shuddering beneath Mauna Loa at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park has prompted a backcountry closure at the volcano's summit.
Nāhuku lava tube in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is closed until further notice while geologists study its stability in the wake of movement of a large rock slab in the tube.
If you’re interested in volcanoes, you need not go further than our national parks to get your fill. Did you know that 84 units of the National Park System have volcanic resources? These parks run the gamut of having very active volcanic features to those where volcanoes formed the landscape and contribute to the geodiversity of the park.
National parks across the country continue to lag behind a court-ordered schedule to complete air-tour management plans and are failing to conduct environmentally required studies as they develop those plans, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.