Formed within a 49,000-year-old cinder cone that is part of the Mauna Loa Volcano, the beach gets its green-colored sands from the crystals that have naturally evolved from the volcano. The sand ...

From the warm sun to the soothing waves, a day at the beach soothes people. A beach day is on many a warm-weather bucket list ...

Papakolea Beach, located on the southern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, is nicknamed Green Sand Beach. The green sands come from olivine crystals from surrounding lava rocks in the Pu'u Mahana cinder ...