March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Ka‘u district. However, this may not have been the ...

Most iguanas live in the Americas. But scientists have found evidence some floated to Fiji, likely snacking on their raft ...

Lava from Hawaii's most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet (215 meters) Thursday during the latest ...

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

From possible impacts to how to prepare, we dive into what we know so far about Anchorage’s closest active volcano and how to ...

Kilauea began continuously releasing lava from its summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at 9:26 a.m., the U.S ...

Some parts of the island chain have a 0.6 millimeter-per-year subsidence rate, but others are in a much more dire state.

The video, which has amassed over 1 million likes on Instagram, shows a beach on Hormuz Island, Iran, named Red Beach for fairly obvious reasons. The video, posted by a tour guide on the island, shows ...

A recent study published in Archaeology in Oceania explores the oral, linguistic, genetic and archaeological evidence ...

The researchers conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis, examining over 4,000 genes from 200 iguanian specimens.

After visiting 30 tropical islands, some of my favorites have been Bora Bora, St. Barts, Curaçao, Barbados, and St. Martin.

At some point after approximately 34 million years ago, the ancestors of the Fiji iguanas arrived on the South Pacific ...