3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (707+ words) Left: Kilauea tephra glass magnesium oxide for the ongoing summit fountaining eruption (black circles) compared to the ranges of glass magnesium oxide for the 2020-2023 and April-May 2018 Halema'uma'u eruptions. Right: Electron microscope image of glassy tephra with round gas bubbles from…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (474+ words) New research from the University of Hawaii at Manoa could help weather forecasters better predict periods of rainfall, such as the heavy storms the islands have experienced in recent months. The research focuses on a weather phenomenon known as the…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (219+ words) Colombian Environment Minister Irene Velez speaks during a press conference about the measures the Colombian government will take to curb the reproduction of hippos in the country, in Bogota, Colombia, April 13, 2026. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez NEW YORK " Colombia will launch a…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (266+ words) Past "Volcano Watch" articles have summarized the episodic lava fountaining eruptions in Kilauea's recent history " within the past couple hundred years. A look further back in the geologic record reveals that several lava fountaining eruptions similar to the ongoing one…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (854+ words) Emperor penguins, the world's largest and perhaps most recognizable penguin species, have joined the list of wildlife endangered by global warming, the International Union for Conservation of Nature announced Thursday. In an update of its Red List, a comprehensive and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (8+ words) Pahoa Agricultural Park eyed for piggeries'Hawaii Tribune-Herald...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (628+ words) WASHINGTON " The U. S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests. The agency plans to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (482+ words) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks next to U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , during an announcement on microplastics at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D. C. , U. S. , April 2, 2026. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno WASHINGTON " The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (788+ words) As detections of the highly destructive coconut rhinoceros beetle in West Hawaii continue to climb, two bills making their way through the state Legislature aim to slow the bugs" spread in markedly different ways. Senate Bill 2925 establishes a tax income…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (934+ words) The state Department of Land and Natural Resources" Division of Aquatic Resources is holding a pair of public meetings as part of what it is calling a "holomua project" on a proposed set of rules that could lead to the…...