Lisbon, May 31 (The Conversation) Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created a tsunami which triggered warnings across the entire Pacific basin, and sent sound waves around the globe multiple times. A new study published in the Journal of Climate explores the …
Indonesia witnessed a series of eruptions from Mount Ruang, a stratovolcano located in North Sulawesi Province. The eruptions occurred on Tuesday, April 16, and continued four times on Wednesday, April 17, according to Indonesia’s volcanology agency. The falling debris from the volcano was hazardous as it could cause a tsunami. Meanwhile, rescue teams raced to …
As the world suffers from the growing impact of global warming and climate change, researchers are looking at new ways to keep the planet cool. However, their plans to look at super-eruptions as a way to block sunlight particles are not going to yield the results. Research has confirmed that sunlight-blocking particles from an extreme …
On February 3, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a second close flyby of Io, the fifth of Jupiter’s moons and the third largest. Like the previous flyby on December 30, 2023, this second pass was at a distance of about 1,500 km (930 miles). During the twin flybys, the spacecraft’s JunoCam instrument returned spectacular, high-resolution …