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

Chemical analyses of these tiny remains matched best with existing data from Japan and the Kuril Islands. But an explosion of this magnitude—releasing around 13 million metric tons of sulfur ...

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.

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

JAPAN: Tokyo has protested to Moscow over Sunday’s arrest of a tour worker in the disputed Kuril islands, granted to Russia at the end of WWII. But Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said ...

RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Pacific port of Vladivostok yesterday for talks on the Kuril Islands, ceded to the Soviet Union at the end of World War ...

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 ...

Japan's Minister of Territorial Affairs, Manabu Sakai, emphasized the importance of territorial preservation by visiting a roundabout introducing Japan's ...

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

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.