Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

A massive volcanic eruption can propel sulfur dioxide through the troposphere — the part of the atmosphere where weather happens — and into the stratosphere, the layer about 7 miles above the ...

Volcanic eruptions release vast amounts of carbon ... this would leave the Yucatán meteorite impact as the primary cause of the later mass extinction. "By comparison, the impact from the asteroid ...