Authorities reported tephra fall—including ash, Pele’s hair, and larger fragments—across Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

In recent years, local small-boat fishers who pursue prized bottomfish such as ehu, onaga and the red opakapaka that’s popular on table spreads across Hawaiʻi each New Year’s have seen a troubling ...

One of the most popular attractions on the Big Island, the park offers some of the best volcano viewing in the world.

Following weeks of escalating public opposition, the Maui County Council now stands in unanimous opposition to the military’s plan to build up to seven telescopes in a state conservation district atop ...

As officials investigate an incident at a popular U.S. National Park in Hawaii, experts show concern over potentially ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, which were thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years, have been rediscovered as living animals.

A neurological disease called rat lungworm has been found in wild animals and one zoo animal in San Diego County, marking its ...

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild. Through coordinated breeding, cultural consultation, and careful reintroduction ...

Hawaiian gobies have an amphidromous life cycle: eggs hatch in freshwater, larvae drift to the ocean to develop, and juveniles must return upstream to breed and live out their adult lives ...

DLNR said wind and ocean conditions recently moved the whale carcass to a lava flat along the coast, where large ocean predators like sharks, mahi-mahi, and dolphins are feeding on it.

Ten new species. Seven new genera. In Hawaiʻi, scientists are still finding animals no one knew existed. Some shimmer with ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers identified 10 new species and seven new groups (genera) of Hawaiian leaf-roller moths. While new species are frequently discovered, the description of a new ...