Hawaii observatory to be evicted amid federal cuts as volcano shoots 700ft lava

Lava fountains shoot up in the latest episode of an ongoing eruption of Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii Volcanoes national park, on 11 March. Photograph: AP

As Hawaii’s most active volcano shot out fountains of lava on Thursday, some of them reaching as high as 700ft, scientists from the US Geological Survey have been posting regular updates on the scale and pace of the eruptions.

But those same scientists, along with their volcano-monitoring equipment, may soon be evicted from their office because of Elon Musk’s federal government cost-cutting, the Honolulu Civil Beat reported.