Researchers analyzed satellite imagery of the volcanic plume and found evidence that the potent greenhouse gas had broken ...

A new international scientific assessment of the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai eruption has explained why the largest volcanic plume ever measured cooled the stratosphere instead of heating it. The ...

The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.

A colossal underwater volcano in the South Pacific may have revealed a surprising new weapon against climate change. After the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai, scientists detected enormous ...

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Unexpected cleanup: Scientists found the 2022 Tonga eruption removed some of its own methane emissions through a natural chemical process. Satellite evidence: High formaldehyde levels tracked for 10 ...

When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas nearly 40 miles above the Earth’s surface. It was one of the most violent volcanic ...

Dramatic images from space showed the moment the eruption sent a mushroom of smoke and ash into the air – Copyright AFP The massive underwater volcanic eruption in ...

“It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,” said one marine geologist. A New Zealand-led team of marine geologists investigating an underwater volcano that erupted on Jan. 15 in the Tongan ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...