Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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 ...
The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...
Along with our stretch of very cold weather here in Central New York recently, a unique sight has developed along the Lake ...
A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, ...
More than a hundred volcanoes lie beneath the Antarctic ice, and the release of some of the weight upon them could spur them ...
As the ice melts, the pressure in the magma chambers eases and the compressed magma can expand, leading to eruptions.
Researchers from Brown University conducted 4,000 computer simulations to examine how ice sheet loss influences Antarctica's ...
The event took place during the last gasp of the Little Ice Age, one of the coldest periods on Earth in the past 10,000 years. While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s ...