Tonga, along with more than 30 other countries, is now under new travel restrictions due to national security concerns.

A team of scientists has returned from a 54-day voyage on an Australian research vessel. They explored the impacts of the devastating 2022 eruption of Tonga's underwater volcano. The international ...

In 2022, Tonga’s Hunga volcano unleashed the most powerful eruption Earth had seen in over a century. The ocean floor was smothered in a thick layer of volcanic ash, turning the seafloor into a barren ...

Did you know there was an eruption in 2022 so wild it had scientists scratching their heads? 🌋 It happened underwater when the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the Pacific Ocean erupted with a ...

Map of the barometric and ground water level monitoring stations used in the study. The numbered contours and the underlying-colored shading indicate the boom’s arrival time to the barometric stations ...

In January 2022, the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano, located in the southwest Pacific near Tuvalu, astonished the world due to its immense power and its unprecedented visibility ...

The 2022 eruption of a volcano in Tonga temporarily darkened clouds on the other side of the planet 1. Researchers have documented many spectacular effects of the underwater eruption of Hunga ...

The Maka Lahi boulder is the largest cliff-top boulder in the world, researchers said. Photo by Köhler, M., Lau, A., Nakata, K., Goto, K., Goff, J., Köhler, D. and ...

Geoscientist Martin Köhler stands in front of Maka Lahi, which measures 46 feet by 39 feet by 22 feet—about the same size as a two-story house. Martin Köhler / The University of Queensland At the top ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Maka Lahi boulder was found over 600 feet inland from the edge of the cliff, and was likely ...