STORY: The volcano first began erupting on Sunday, November 27, at about 11:30 p.m. local time, according to the USGS. Mauna Loa rises 13,679 feet (4,169 meters) above the Pacific Ocean, part of a ...

A lava river fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is moving faster. A river of lava fed by the erupting Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and its many fissures was moving faster and ...

UB researcher Stephan Kolzenburg is having a busy summer studying volcanoes around the world to deepen scientists’ understanding of lava flow. “When Nyiragongo erupted in 2021,” Kolzenburg says, “more ...

In a field test of their instrument, University at Buffalo researchers gathered viscosity data from lava flows at the Litli-Hrútur eruption in Iceland. WASHINGTON, June 4, 2024 – Millions of people ...

An unstable band of clouds riding in with the trade wind flow will enhance shower activity Wednesday morning into Thursday. The high will shift northeast as a weak front slides north of the state ...

Over the past few years, eruptions of Kilauea volcano on the Island of Hawaii have happened in remote regions and lava flows have not directly threatened communities. However, the approaching ...

By studying ancient lava flows that fractured over Turkey’s Tuz Gölü Fault, researchers at Curtin University have uncovered new evidence of how continents slowly tear apart. Studying ancient lava flow ...

Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth’s crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding ...

HONOLULU - Prayer. Bombs. Walls. Over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava from Hawaii’s volcanoes as it lumbered toward roads, homes and infrastructure. Now Mauna Loa ...

March 17 (Reuters) - Lava flows from a volcano in southwest Iceland that had lit up the night sky on Saturday slowed on Sunday while man-made barriers appeared to be successful in steering the lava ...