It would be pretty amazing if, say, an oil spill cleaned itself up or if a car somehow removed carbon dioxide from the air while driving down the highway. Well, according to new research published in Nature Communications , a volcano may have done something like that. When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupted in 2022, it blasted huge amounts of methane and debris into the atmosphere…and then partially destroyed that methane itself, almost as if it were embarrassed that it had made a mess and scrambled to clean it up while profusely apologizing. Videos by VICE The eruption itself was already historic. The underwater volcano in the South Pacific exploded with such incredible force that ash and gas shot about 40 miles into the air, becoming the first ever recorded instance of a volcanic plume reaching the atmosphere. The blast was so powerful it was heard over 1200 miles away in New Zealand. Scientists have been studying it ever since, and why wouldn’t they?…