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 ...

Scientists solved the 200-year-old mystery of the location of a large volcanic eruption that exerted a massive volume of gases which blocked sunlight and made the sun look blue. Experts studied ...

purple and green as a result of light scattering and absorption by aerosol particles from the volcano's plume. A similar phenomenon was observed after the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, according to the ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

Mount Pelée (1902) Death toll: 30,000 It’s considered the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. Krakatoa (1883) Death toll: 36,000 The eruption cast so much dust into the atmosphere ...

First Person - RNZ Pacific reporter, Iliesa Tora, reflects on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption, saying people ...

Witness the awe-inspiring power of nature up close by visiting some of the world's most dangerous volcanoes on hikes. Krakatoa's violent 1883 eruption and Anak Krakatau's frequent activity make it ...

A similar phenomenon was observed after the 1883 Krakatoa eruption, according to the study. The Zavaritskii volcano crater on Simushir Island. The eruption's knock-on effects may have been deadly ...