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 ...

For instance, a recent study found that the enormous amount of aerosols and water vapor emitted by the Tonga eruption had a ...

The dust has hampered relief planes from landing and delivering much-needed food and drinking water. Consulate of the Kingdom of Tonga The island of Tongatapu has been coated in a layer of ...

Leka Anitema said her mother-in-law was rationing her water and also sweeping volcanic ... Britain and China have been delivering assistance, though Tonga went into a lockdown on Wednesday after ...

According to their research, the amount of water uplifted was enough to fill about one million standard Olympic-sized swimming pools. The Hunga Tonga event was short in duration, but it was one of ...

Silent precursor to a violent eruption Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai is an oceanic ... injecting 58,000 Olympic swimming pools of water vapor into the stratosphere, setting off an unprecedented ...