An island near Tonga that emerged from the ocean in 2015 was teeming with unique life-forms, but the 21st century's largest volcanic eruption completely obliterated it, a new study has revealed. The ...

A 57-year-old Tongan man was forced to swim for 27 hours straight after getting swept at sea amidst Saturday's devastating tsunami. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano and subsequent ...

I hate to give you something else to worry about, but you need to be aware of this situation in the Kingdom of Tonga. The Kingdom of Tonga, as you know if you just now looked it up in the encyclopedia ...

When British traveler Zoe Stephens flew into the South Pacific island nation of Tonga last March, she was only planning to stay for the weekend. Originally from Crosby, Merseyside in the UK, the ...

In January 2022, the largest submarine volcanic eruption of this century led to a dramatic phytoplankton bloom north of the island of Tongatapu, in the Kingdom of Tonga. A team of scientists from the ...

“Where’s Tonga?” so many of our friends asked when we told them we were going to go bareboat sailing there in December. (Bareboat means no captain or crew -- we sail the boat.) Tonga is a tropical ...

NASA has been watching the birth of a new volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean. The first to persist in the age of the modern satellite, the emerging rock offers scientists a laboratory to map rarely ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with visiting King Tupou VI of the Kingdom of Tonga here on Tuesday, saying that China is ...

The island was destroyed by the same volcano that formed it seven years before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An island near ...