Experiments show that lightning strikes can trigger the synthesis of basic organic molecules needed by living organisms.

Ancient rocks in South Africa and Eswatini act like a geological time machine, revealing oceans, volcanoes and microbial life ...

Volcanic eruptions have the capacity to threaten the safety of satellites, although they are hundreds of kilometers higher up from the Earth's ground, recent research reveals. The massive 2022 ...

The atmosphere is still feeling the effects of the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano in the southern Pacific ...

In 2015, a new island emerged and endured within the Tonga archipelago, a rather rare occurrence. Since its appearance, life ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

To help address these challenges, IFC will provide TDB with an unfunded risk-sharing facility of up to USD 3 million ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group focused on the private sector, announced a partnership with Tonga Development Bank (TDB) to support micro, small and ...

This assessment shows how Hunga’s water-rich plume reshaped the stratosphere in ways not seen before,” said Tim Naish, Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee.

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 ...