A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

The underwater eruption of the Tongan volcano in January 2022 sent a plume of ash and gas 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the atmosphere and excavated a crater 850 meters (half a mile) deep on the ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new ...

An underwater volcano near the South Pacific island nation ... the volcanic island about 65 kilometres north of the Tongan capital Nuku’alofa. It is believed to be the biggest volcanic eruption ...

“The majority of volcanoes will have a cooling effect,” said Peter Thorne, a professor of climate science at Maynooth University in Ireland. The Tongan volcano “is an exception to the rule ...

If the volcano starts to produce lava ... Some locals have reportedly proposed naming it after Tongan Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva, a pro-democracy campaigner and the first commoner elected ...

amotu International Airport on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga, January 20, 2022 in this picture obtained from social media. New Zealand High Commission, Nuku'alofa Tonga/via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS ...