The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

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

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

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) ...

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 ...

“We don't know where the volcano is located, though it could be around the equator somewhere, because it's traceable in both Greenland and Antarctica,” said Iversen. Regardless of its location, the ...

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

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano’s location was not. Researchers recently solved that puzzle by sampling ice cores in Greenland, peering back in time through the ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years later, scientists have identified the “mystery volcano.” The eruption was one of the ...