The Volcano That Erupted for 60 Years Straight
Two generations watched it glow. In the early 1400s, a vent on Hawai‘i’s Kīlauea opened and refused to close, sending slow rivers of basalt across the island for roughly six decades and rewriting both the map and the living world around it. That long fire – known today as the ‘Ailā‘au eruption – did ...
