A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...

Pacific Island nations are highly vulnerable to debt distress, with Tonga carrying one of the heaviest burdens. The Pacific is the most aid-dependent region in the world, and like many countries i ...

The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the most powerful in modern history, reached all the way into the atmosphere and beyond — shaking space as far up as satellites ...

Coral reefs — which are essential for maintaining marine life and biodiversity, as well as helping protect coastal communities from storms — are losing their colors and transforming in the ...

With coral reefs in crisis due to climate change, scientists have engineered a bio-ink that could help promote coral larvae settlement and restore these underwater ecosystems before it's too late.

USGS said the quake hit at a depth of 243km around 137km from the closest town of Neiafu Sydney: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattled Tonga on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said ...

The rock called Maka Lahi is important in the mythology of the people of Tonga, and scientists have worked out part of its origin story. By Katherine Kornei Just a stone’s throw from the ocean ...

Much of Hawaii's coral reefs are dying, turning bleached white, due to rising temperatures and chemicals brought into the ...

Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano et al, Soundscape analysis reveals fine ecological differences among coral reef habitats, Ecological Indicators (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113120 ...

Research on Tonga's devastating 2022 Hunga eruption has just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. "Submarine volcanism has previously been overlooked in global climate studies ...

But tourism can replace fishing in the economy, helping preserve coral reefs. I am crossing a desert ... Streams of slime wafted from their dying heads. Even the fish seemed dazed in that ...

There isn’t much chance of confusing tremella mushrooms with the usual button mushrooms, as their unique coral reef look with thin white ruffles makes up the majority of the fungus and is an ...