People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an unusual problem. Floating volcanic rock is making boat travel difficult, blocking access to fishing grounds and disrupting daily life in coastal ...
A map of pumice drift from the 2012 eruption of the Havre seamount 180 days after the eruption. A computer model could help track rafts of floating rock in the ocean, perhaps giving scientists a way ...
A “raft” of floating pumice rock the size of Manhattan is drifting towards Australia, bringing along with it new marine life that could help with the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals, half ...
It’s true — some rocks can float on water for years at a time. And now scientists know how they do it, and what causes them to eventually sink. X-ray studies at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
Pumice on the shore of Kunigami, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, after the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba eruption. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Kugel~commonswiki People in parts of Papua New Guinea are facing an ...
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