Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a few days before eruption, January 2022
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Most of the approximately 150 million tonnes of water vapour released into the atmosphere by the undersea eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai volcano in 2022 has remained there, causing record concentrations in many parts of the atmosphere.
“This is truly an extraordinary and unprecedented event.” Christian von Savigny at the University of Greifswald, Germany.
The South Pacific eruption was the first such event to occur when…
Source: www.newscientist.com
