Although the mountain volcano Mauna Kea last erupted around 4000 years ago, it is still hot today, the center of a burning controversy over whether its summit should be used for astronomical observatories or preserved as a cultural landscape sacred to the Hawaiian people.
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege
A dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawai'i becomes the subject of a bitter feud between scientists who want to use it as an astronomical observatory and native Hawaiians who consider it sacred.
