{"id":1426,"date":"2019-01-09T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2019-02-14T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:22:36","slug":"living-with-lava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturepl.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/09\/living-with-lava\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with Lava"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n\"\"\n\"\"\n

What\u2019s it like to live on an actively volcanic island? <\/strong><\/span>Find out in our latest photo story!<\/p>\n

Photographer Doug Perrine has lived on Hawaii for quarter of a century. He\u2019s had several close calls photographing lava flows, and even lost a home to volcanic activity. Nevertheless, Perrine considers it a privilege to live on an island constantly being remoulded by geological forces.<\/p>\n

View our story PDF, complete with text, here<\/a><\/p>\n

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“With volcanoes surrounded by deep blue ocean, I have both fire and water. It’s a nature photographer’s paradise.” <\/em><\/h1>\n

– Doug Perrine, 2018<\/em><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The entire archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands and Empe\u00adror Seamounts, stretching some 5,800 km from the Island of Hawaii northwest nearly to the eastern edge of Russia and the Aleutian Trench, is formed of volca\u00adnoes, including four that are active, two that are dormant, and at least 123 that are extinct.<\/span><\/p>\n

On New Year\u2019s Eve 2016, a massive section of the Kamokuna lava delta collapsed into the ocean, exposing an active lava tube. A spout of lava gushed out of the new cliff face into the cool waters of the Pacific. Where the lava impacted the ocean, the reaction was violent, generating explosions of acidic steam and fragmented lava pieces, which cooled rapi\u00addly into black pumice rocks. This battle of the elements played out until the build up of cooled lava created a new delta that finally sealed off the lava tube.<\/p>\n