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'Desert' of floating rock traps islands after undersea volcanic eruption
Titan Ridge volcano in Papua New Guinea inundates Manus coastlines with pumice stone Mon 8 Jun 2026 at 1:17pm In short: Papua New Guineans are concerned about access to food and fresh water after volcanic rock inundated the sea around their islands. The undersea volcano in the Bismark Sea has caused pumice stone to cover much of the ocean in Manus Province. The PNG government said it was assessing the situation and determining how best to respond.
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Abstract Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1,2,3,4,5,6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along the sea floor of the southeastern Indian Ocean. This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded.