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

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

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

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

Volcanoes aren’t just a thing of the past—several U.S. states still have active, erupting peaks! From Hawaii’s lava flows to ...

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 ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

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 ...

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Volcanic eruptions were cataclysmic in centuries past, from the 43 B.C. eruption of a volcano in Alaska that caused failed ...

Quantities of sulfate in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica dating to about 2910 BC suggested that this cooling followed a volcanic eruption, scientists reported January 16 in the journal ...