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Mauna Loa has erupted 34 times since 1843. Each eruption started in Mokuʻāweoweo, and likely the south caldera area.

BUTTERWORTH, Feb 1 — The Penang government is drawing up several action plans to deal with the dwindling water level at the Air Itam Dam. Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said these...

NOAA's Coral Reef Watch added three new alerts to track potential risks to coral reefs and other marine life after the hottest year on record.

THE Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Wednesday reiterated its reminder to concerned local government units (LGUs) to make sure that the permanent danger zones (PDZs) around all active volcanoes are totally uninhabited even under Alert Level 0.

The US government program that informs coral bleaching response plans around the world has added three new alert levels to its heat stress category system after stress on coral...

GEORGE TOWN: Penang Water Supply Corporation has requested that cloud seeding be done as water levels in Air Itam Dam drop below 40%.

In each of these places—on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Kīlauea in 2018, Cumbre Vieja, and Nyiragongo—the impact of the eruption extends far beyond the margins of the lava flow.  Large numbers of nearby residents have been displaced, and their lives severely disrupted, even if the flow spared their property. 

Lava flows slowly approaching houses. Authorities evacuating neighborhoods. The tension of residents not knowing when, or if, they can return to their homes.

A new eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula began on Jan. 14, threatening the small fishing village of Grindavik.

Technicians at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory are constantly engineering, building, deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, or upgrading equipment and instruments that we use to monitor Hawaii’s active volcanoes. This week’s “Volcano Watch” article focuses on the installation process of newly upgraded seismometers that are used to detect and locate earthquakes.