Note: no sound] Sakurajima volcano in Japan has erupted explosively, sending a plume of ash 2000 meters above the crater.

The location of a giant volcanic eruption in 1831 has eluded scientists for nearly 200 years, but now they have solved the ...

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

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

Deadly volcanic activity in Japan in recent years includes the 1993 eruption of Mount Unzen’s Fugendake and the 2014 eruption of Mount Ontakesan in central Japan. Both incidents killed dozens of ...

the closest matches were in Japan and the Kuril Islands. Volcanic eruptions in 19th century Japan were well-documented, and there were no records of a large eruption in 1831. But colleagues who ...

Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands — a former Soviet nuclear submarine base — was responsible for the mysterious 1831 ...

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

New research finally solves the nearly two hundred year old mystery of which volcano caused the Sun to turn blue with its ...