Update at 4:43 a.m. April 18: Additional snow accumulation of up to 2 inches is forecast for Big Island summits as the winter ...

The forecast calls for snow at the highest summits of the Big Island, where snow occurs several times per year, especially ...

Up to two inches of snow could accumulate on the state's summits.

Mauna Kea is the only place in the northern subtropical Pacific where evidence of ancient glaciation still exists. Although Mauna Loa likely also had glaciers in the past, volcanic eruptions have ...

Before this event, Mauna Loa had not erupted since 1984 ... It is not the tallest volcano in Hawaii – that title goes to Mauna Kea – but it is the largest and makes up about half of the ...

In June, ATLAS-2 on Mauna Loa helped detect a relatively small asteroid ... you’ll know precisely where it might hit.” On Mauna Kea, considered one of the best vantage points for studying ...

Elon Musk's DOGE is considering terminating the lease of a tiny office that supports a huge climate science project.

She has been working in journalism for seven years. Mauna Loa, one of the world's largest active volcanoes, is erupting for the first time in 38 years on Hawaii's Big Island. The eruption began in ...

Hawaii island’s Mauna Loa (background), towers over the summit crater of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on April 25, 2019. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the world’s ...

There is also a secondary testing site on Mauna Kea, a second volcano about 35 miles north of Mauna Loa, but it, too, depends on NOAA staff to maintain the equipment. Asked how the loss of staff ...