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 ...

Reports of widespread hunger and hardship swiftly followed, with famines sweeping across India, Japan and Europe, affecting millions of people. “It seems plausible that volcanic climate cooling ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian subcontinent have long been proposed as a possible cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs. These eruptions occurred shortly before Earth was struck by a ...

Around eight volcanoes, both active and dormant, are scattered across the Indian subcontinent This 354m high active volcano is located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Last erupted in 2021 ...

Indonesian officials raised its alert status to the highest level and called for the evacuation of 3,000 people living in six ...

Ancient tools discovered in northern India provide new evidence that humans were able to survive one of the largest volcanic events in human history — the Toba supervolcano eruption. The Toba ...

Five countries with the most active volcanoes include Chile, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, and the USA. These nations' volcanic activity is primarily located along tectonic plate boundaries ...

The study reveals that while Deccan Volcanism caused significant disasters for fauna, its effects on flora were only ...

Volcanic regions of the world host a range of unique species that have evolved and adapted to these remarkable habitats.

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 ...