Today is Earth Day and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is celebrating the native rainforest by honoring the biology of aloha, or “commensalism.” This special relationship can be spotted throughout the forest along many of the park’s popular hiking trails. The relationship is neither parasitic nor symbiotic but a beautiful balance of mutually shared habitat. Keep your eyes open for the reclining “nurse log” trunks of giant hapuʻu tree ferns. Here you can spot multiple species growing from the sam

Kīlauea volcano is currently erupting again at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park! 🌋 At approximately 3:15 p.m. HST on September 10, 2023, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory observed eruptive activity in Kīlauea summit webcam images and from field reports indicating that an eruption has commenced within Halemaʻumaʻu Crater and on the down dropped block to the east in Kīlauea’s summit caldera, within Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The eruption is confined to Halemaʻumaʻu and is not a threat to