Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

One eruption thought to be responsible for the global cooling event from 1831 to 1833 was attributed to Babuyan Claro in the ...

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 ...

The location of a giant volcanic eruption in 1831 has eluded scientists for nearly 200 years, but now they have solved the ...

The researchers conclude that the 1831 Zavaritskii eruption had a magnitude of 5 to 6, similar in power to the 1991 eruption ...

The eruption led to a global temperature drop of about 1°C, causing famines and crop failures, especially in Asia.

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 ...

The Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril ... The key to his team's discovery was, improbably, ice cores from Greenland. “Only in recent years have we developed the ability to ...

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