The location of a giant volcanic eruption in 1831 has eluded scientists for nearly 200 years, but now they have solved the mystery. The Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands ...

In 1831, somewhere on Earth's surface, a portal to the underworld appeared. A massive volcano opened wide its jaws and belched forth so much ash and smoke that the skies dimmed, cooling the Northern ...

Scientists have uncovered a long-missing piece of the volcanic puzzle: rising magma doesn’t just form explosive gas bubbles ...

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A climatic mystery about a year that gave summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive ...

The likelihood of an imminent eruption at Bolivia’s “zombie” volcano remains low despite recent rumbling, according to a new study that sheds more light on its strange internal activity. In spite of ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Scientists have identified the "mystery volcano" that cooled Earth's climate, nearly 200 years after its eruption in 1831.