Discover the incredible story of the Zavaritskii Caldera, the "lost" volcano that changed the climate. In 1831, a massive ...

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

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

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

In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption cooled the Earth’s atmosphere by 1 degree Celsius and even caused the Sun to appear in ...

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

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

The team used evidence from well-dated ice cores and other geological records to pinpoint the Zavaritskii caldera— an "extremely remote" volcano situated on the uninhabited island of Simushir in ...

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 ...