A Bay of Plenty quarry business, the company director and one of the landowners have been fined $272,000 after extracting huge amounts of pumice in breach of a resource consent.

Evolution of pumice and pumice rafts after eruption. The team identified three phases of evolution of raft density, pumice size, roundness, and attached biological organisms.

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...