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 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 ...

the Kuril Islands have remained under Russian administration even despite Japanese claims for the four southernmost (including two largest) ...

It's on the remote and uninhabited island of Simushir, which is part of the long chain of Kuril Islands off the coast of Russia and Japan. Scientists say that during the Cold War, the Soviets were ...

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

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

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

Researchers have discovered the origins of a 200-year-old volcanic eruption that ejected so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it changed the climate and made the sun look blue. In 1831, the ...

Russian officials claimed on Sunday that a U.S. Navy Virginia-class submarine was found in Russia’s territorial waters near the Kuril Islands a day earlier. The submarine was reportedly detected ...