A submarine eruption north of Papua New Guinea may be building new land while satellites track its evolution from above.

Twenty-seven years have passed since the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the western port city of Kobe.

The 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption triggered an unexpected atmospheric reaction that destroyed methane in the stratosphere for over a week — a discovery that could rewrite global methane budgets and ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano exploded in 2022, it was the loudest sound heard on Earth in over a century. It sent a shockwave around the globe and shot a massive plume of ash into the ...

When the Hunga Tonga volcano exploded on January 15, 2022, it did something no eruption had done before in the satellite record: it drove roughly 150 teragrams of water vapor — about 10% of all ...

Australia and New Zealand sent out surveillance flights to Tonga Monday, in the wake of an enormous undersea volcano eruption on Saturday. Communication with the South Pacific island chain remains ...

A team of scientists have discovered a 2022 volcanic eruption resulted in the volcano effectively cleaning up after itself when it came to its methane production. The study, published in Nature ...

People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an unusual problem. Floating volcanic rock is making boat travel difficult, blocking access to fishing grounds and disrupting daily life in coastal ...

June 28, 2026 Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early tests found these roads didn't release more plastic particles ...