People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

such as India and Japan. But despite the significant impact of the eruption, the identity of the volcano responsible had long been the subject of significant debate. Now a team of researchers says ...

Volcanic eruptions in 19th century Japan were well ... with famines sweeping across India, Japan and Europe, affecting millions of people. “It seems plausible that volcanic climate cooling ...

The amount of sulfur thrown into the atmosphere played a role in crop failures that led to famines in the mid-to-late 1830s in Japan and India. This isn't the last "missing" volcanic eruption. There ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted for the seventh time since December on Monday ...

Scottish researchers have identified the Zavaritsky volcano on Simushir Island ... to be double that of the Madras famine in India. Although the eruption had global impacts, its location had ...

Indonesian officials raised its alert status to the highest level and called for the evacuation of 3,000 people living in six ...

Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is erupting with fountains of lava. Check out a USGS livestream from within the Halema'uma'u crater.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s climate, scientists have identified the source: the Zavaritskii volcano in the remote Kuril Islands. For almost 200 years ...