This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

A 2024 satellite photo shows four end-to-end volcanoes perfectly spaced out along the Russian island of Simushir. One of ...

The search spanned continents, but no known volcano fits in ... experts has traced the 1831 climate-altering eruption to an unlikely source: a long-forgotten Soviet military island hidden deep ...

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The 1831 “mystery eruption” that caused global cooling and famines has been traced to the Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands. Researchers matched ash in polar ice cores to the ...

Oleg Dirksen In the summer of 1831, an enormous volcanic eruption spewed sulfur gas into ... No one lives on Simushir Island, once home to a Soviet submarine base, Hutchison explains, and written ...

THE location of a mystery volcano that caused "devastating famines" nearly 200 years ago has finally been found, scientists say. A massive eruption that took place in 1831 flooded the atmosphere ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years later, scientists have identified the “mystery volcano.” The eruption was one of the ...