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 new study published in the journal PNAS found the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir – now a disputed territory between Russia and Japan – was behind the massive ...

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

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

In the summer of 1831, people across the Northern Hemisphere experienced bizarre and unsettling phenomena: the sun appeared blue, purple, and even green, and temperatures dropped dramatically during ...

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

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

The team discovered it was the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir, which is part of the Kuril Islands – a disputed territory between Russia and Japan. Currently ...

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.

A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has found that the Zavaritskii volcano on the remote, uninhabited island of Simushir - now a contested territory ...