An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a volcano.

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

In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption cooled the Earth’s atmosphere by 1 degree Celsius and even caused the Sun to appear in ...

A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its ...

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

Researchers have discovered the origins of a 200-year-old volcanic eruption that ejected so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it changed the climate and made the sun look blue. In 1831, the ...

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s climate, scientists have identified the source: the Zavaritskii volcano in the remote Kuril Islands. For almost 200 years ...

For centuries, Simushir Island didn't attract much attention, but today, we know it's the location of a massive volcanic eruption with unparalleled aftermath. How did this one incident wreak havoc on ...