By some metrics, Everest most certainly is the tallest mountain in the world—standing at an impressive 29,031.69 feet —but it ...

In the colder months, it's not uncommon for snow to fall on on Hawaii's mountain peaks since they are nearly 14,000 feet high ...

A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new ...

On most nights, city skies hide the stars. Streetlights, buildings, and cars fill the air with artificial glow that drowns ...

On Hawaii’s Big Island, photographer Josh Cogan explores one of the world’s most dynamic landscapes—where exploration, ...

Mount Everest has long been shorthand for the ultimate summit, the uncontested “top of the world.” Yet as geophysicists map ...

Right now, Gov. Josh Green is dealing with two negotiations. One, involving military leases, is far along and very public.

The conversation about the Thirty Meter Telescope had gone silent for a time, since the developers of the controversial ...

Hawaii faces cloudy, wet, and windy conditions, with possible heavy rain on the Big Island and Maui and snow at summit levels ...

The Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority took no vote Thursday but heard hours of testimony sparked by Gov. Josh Green’s recent letter outlining a path for permitting the Thirty Meter ...

Swaths of central and eastern states have received much less snow than average over the past five winters – a trend that may continue this season.

Isabella Bird: adventurer, explorer, writer, photographer, naturalist. Despite ill health and defying Victorian conventions ...