Tag: ecology
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Forged by fire and tide, Barren Island surprises ecologists
Few islands advertise their nature so bluntly. Barren Island, in the Andaman Sea east of India’s main Andaman chain, is uninhabited not because history forgot it but because fire never fully did. It is the only confirmed active volcano in South Asia, a dark, isolated cone rising from deep water about 135 kilometers northeast of…