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  1. The #TongaEruption Left #DeepSea Life Buried in Ash eos.org/articles/the-tonga-eru Paper: nature.com/articles/s43247-024

    "a team of scientists was on a #ResearchVessel near Tonga to study the #animals that live around #HydrothermalVents. But when they lowered a remotely operated vehicle down to a vent to search for the critters, they found the seafloor, normally a hard basalt surface, blanketed in sediment... they now had a rare opportunity to document the effects of a volcanic eruption on marine ecosystems"