The Atlantic island of Bermuda has long looked like a geological magic trick, a lonely volcanic peak apparently hovering in ...

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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 massive raft made of pumice stones is floating toward Australia, carrying marine organisms that scientists say could help replenish Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Some of the stones are as large as ...

Sea creatures around Australia are getting a free ride on a massive raft of pumice rock the size of Manhattan. It’s more than just a freaky, mysterious island, though. NASA satellite imagery shows ...

They are pumice stones - from the largest pumice raft seen in the past 50 years after an underwater volcano erupted off New Zealand. The pumice stones are lining the high tide mark on Sydney's ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The first thing the sailors noticed was the smell of sulfur. Then, Larissa Brill and Michael Hoult, a couple sailing in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, saw it: a floating mass ...

“The rubble slick went as far as we could see in the moonlight." London -- Sailors in the South Pacific were surprised this month to find themselves sailing through a sea of stone. Australian couple ...

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 ...

An underwater volcano is thought to have produced a sheet of pumice that stretches 58 square miles. A massive raft made of pumice stones is floating toward Australia, carrying marine organisms that ...