Big Island students to go on lava field trips
Some students on Hawaii's Big Island are getting a rare, up-close look at the lava that's disrupting where they go to school.
Some students on Hawaii's Big Island are getting a rare, up-close look at the lava that's disrupting where they go to school.
Earth Sciences
Dec 4, 2014
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The destruction caused by the lava of Kilauea are grabbing the attention of the international media. Last week, footage showed this eruption claiming its first house in Pahoa and people began to question whether to try to ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 19, 2014
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Lava from Kilauea volcano is breaking out at three spots near the small Hawaii town of Pahoa.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2014
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There are at least 60,000 identified tree species in the world, "but we know next to nothing about how they got here," Elizabeth Stacy says. "Trees form the backbone of our forests, and are ecologically and economically important, ...
Ecology
Nov 10, 2014
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Lava threatening a rural Hawaii town has stopped its slow, forward advance—for now.
Earth Sciences
Nov 6, 2014
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Lava that's slowly creeping into a rural Hawaii town is about the length of a basketball court from a house.
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2014
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Smoldering lava from a slow-erupting volcano has reached within yards (several meters) of homes on Hawaii's Big Island, emergency officials said Monday as villagers braced to evacuate.
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2014
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Six people have sealed themselves inside a white vinyl dome in Hawaii to embark on an eight-month test of how their mental health might fare during a mission to Mars.
Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2014
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Tropical Storm Ana was being battered by wind shear when NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead and saw the bulk of showers and thunderstorms pushed north and east of the center.
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2014
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A mass of marine debris discovered in a giant sinkhole in the Hawaiian islands provides evidence that at least one mammoth tsunami, larger than any in Hawaii's recorded history, has struck the islands, and that a similar ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2014
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