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

Discover the incredible story of the Zavaritskii Caldera, the "lost" volcano that changed the climate. In 1831, a massive ...

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

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

The eruption was so powerful it caused global temperatures to drop by around 1C and led to widespread crop failures ...

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 ...

Scientists have tried for years to find the volcanic culprit, and a new study comparing polar ice shards with samples from the Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril islands has found an exact match.

The team led by Dr Hutchison was able to accurately date and match the ice core deposits to Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir, part of the Kuril Islands ...