Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

The sun stones correspond with the decline of the so-called Funnel Beaker tradition in European Neolithic culture, or the era ...

That meant the eruption likely took place in the Northern Hemisphere. The Greenland ice cores included ash layers and ...

Scientists solved the 200-year-old mystery of the location of a large volcanic eruption ... blocked sunlight and made the sun look blue. Experts studied the ash deposited on polar ice cores ...

While the volcano’s location is unknown, the eruption would have spewed ash and other aerosols into the atmosphere and dimmed the sun across Northern Europe, cooling the climate and causing ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out ... volcanic eruption that spewed such a large volume of gases that it blocked sunlight, making the sun appear ...

Archaeologists and climate scientists can now show that these ritual sacrifices coincided with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe. 4,900 years ago ...

Hundreds of mysterious engraved “sun stones” unearthed in Denmark may have been ceremonially buried because a volcanic ... a huge area. Ash clouds may have blocked out the sun, lowering ...

Sulfates are compounds commonly found after a major volcanic eruption. Ash clouds from the eruption could have obscured the sun and led to a drop in temperatures for several years. This severe coo ...

So gloomy were its effects that, in the northern hemisphere, it even sullied the beaming visage of the Sun ... volcano. "Only in recent years have we developed the ability to extract microscopic ...

In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption cooled the Earth’s atmosphere by 1 degree Celsius and even caused the Sun to appear in varying ... to extract microscopic ash shards from polar ice cores ...

Engraved with concentric circles and solar rays, Vasagård's “sun stones” may have been made and buried in response to a volcanic eruption. (Credit: National Museum of Denmark) To the Stone Age ...