Cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Hawai’i triggers astonishing explosion of life 1,200 miles away

In 2018, Kīlauea volcano in Hawai‘i sent a towering plume of ash nearly five miles into the sky – and it travelled far and wide.

In fact, scientists now believe that this ash kickstarted an even mightier event over 1,200 miles away in the…