When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How ...

NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa ...

Mauna Loa’s 2022 eruption ... This deformation is especially easy to see by comparing satellite radar images over time — a technique known as interferometric synthetic aperture radar, or ...

The history of Jews in the Hawaiian Islands, when they arrived, what happened during World War II, and what their lives are ...

These destinations on Earth simulate some of the most stressful parts of space travel, and help astronauts survive in extreme situations. While we might not be able to go to space, a visit to these ...

The measurement of atmospheric constituents such as CO 2 began in Mauna Loa, Hawaii in 1958, and clean air baseline measurements started in the mid-1970s at Cape Grim, Tasmania. High-quality satellite ...

The collapse volume at the summit nearly matched the effused lava volume on the rift zone. In this regard, 1868 was a little ...

March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Ka‘u district. However, this may not have been the ...

March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Ka‘u district. However, this may not have ...

Once a week or so, one of them takes a short helicopter ride to the northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano – necessary because in 2022 an eruption buried more than a mile of the road in 30 feet ...