As a result, Zavaritskii was a thoroughly unknown candidate for the so-called “mystery volcano.” Hutchison and his team homed ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

By analyzing traces of ash preserved in ice cores recovered from Greenland, the authors of a new study produced a chemical fingerprint of the lava, matching it to a volcano on a remote island on ...

and ice cores from Greenland—offers new insights into the chronology of abrupt climate changes in Central Europe. According to the analysis, the devastating eruption of the Laacher See volcano ...

Climate scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Bornholm analyzed ice cores from Greenland’s ice sheets and demonstrated that a major volcanic eruption ...

Quantities of sulfate in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica dating to about 2910 BC suggested that this cooling followed ...

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Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano's location was not. Researchers recently solved that puzzle by sampling ice cores in Greenland, peering back in time through the cores' ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years later, scientists have identified the “mystery volcano.” The eruption was one of the ...