An "island" of floating pumice rocks bigger in area than Israel has been spotted in the South Pacific, New Zealand's Royal Navy said. Officers on a Royal New Zealand Air Force ship saw the rock raft ...

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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 ...

KINGDOM OF TONGA — A massive area of floating volcanic rock as large as Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean could ultimately help save Australia's Great Barrier Reef, at least that's the hope of scientists ...

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 ...