Their findings pinpoint the culprit: Zavaritskii, a remote volcano on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands chain between Japan and Russia. Previously, the likely culprit was wrongly ...

William Hutchison’s team identified the Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island as the culprit by matching volcanic ash from Greenland ice cores to samples from the caldera. Milk genes Neanderthals?

representing a bygone ecosystem that could teach us about climate change The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...