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 ...

Researchers found 100+ volcanoes beneath Antarctic ice along the active West Antarctic Rift System, dating back to the ...

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

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

M ore than a hundred volcanoes lie beneath the Antarctic ice, and the release of some of the weight upon them could spur them ...

Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern ...

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives—a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) ...

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.

The synchronization of data from two natural climate archives -- a speleothem from the Herbstlabyrinth Cave in Hesse (Germany) and ice cores from Greenland -- offers new insights into the chronology ...

A "completely unique" collection of prehistoric stone artifacts have been linked to a "devastating" volcanic eruption.

Ice core analyses from Greenland and Antarctica reveal high levels of sulfur from a massive volcanic eruption approximately 4 ...